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Originally Posted by rhadin
Harry,
The exact same backup that goes to my NAS box also goes to Carbonite. I see no sense -- for me, that is -- to do an image of my drives so that both programs and data are backed up. I do back up program preference files, however. I don't have hundreds of GBs to backup; more like 10s of GBs. And my Internet connection is fiber optic.
Besides, it is only the initial backup to Carbonite that takes time. On a daily basis I don't change GBs of data.
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That's a good plan.
My main issue is that I have literally hundreds of GB of audio books and radio shows stored on my NAS box, which I also use as a media server to stream to my living room. It never changes (other than to get added to), but it does need safely backing up, so for that I use external hard disk, and keep one at home and the other at work.
Cloud storage would, I suspect, be pretty unworkable for me, given that the "upstream" speed of my ADSL connection is only 370kbit/sec (downstream is about 4Mbit/sec on a good day).