Carbonite

Ensures online backup is a more efficient for users to back up computer files. Files are securely encrypted, copied, and backed up to servers in an off site data center.

Carbonite Personal Backup takes minutes to set up and runs continuously in the background to make sure your memories and important files are protected.

Key Features:

• Unlimited cloud storage: Compare and find the plan that fits you best. Less than the cost of one latte a month ($5) keeps a lifetime of photos, music and irreplaceable files safe.
  
• Simple, automatic, continuous: Set-it-and-forget-it. Your files are automatically, continuously backed up. No remembering, no scheduling. Just live life, weve got your back.
  
• Free premium support: Unlike other backup offerings, we include free premium, U.S.-based customer support. If you ever get stuck, our award-winning customer support team is ready to help. They are available daily via phone, chat or email.
  
• Easy Restore: If disaster (or spilled coffee) strikes, you can recover files from the cloud in just a few clicks. Restore all of your files, or just a few, with our easy restore wizard.
  
• Anytime Anywhere Access: You forgot a file on your home computer, or want to show friends a photo on the train. No problem. Carbonite mobile apps allow you to view, share and download your files from your mobile devices, wherever and whenever you need them.
  
• Safe and sound: Fort Knox? Even better. Before leaving your computer, your files are encrypted using 128-bit Blowfish encryption. Then, theyre transmitted to one of our data centers using a Secure Socket Layer (SSL), where they are guarded 24 hours a day.

Carbonite - Features

Carbonite Protects You From

• Accidental Deletion 43% of people lose irreplaceable files every year.
• Theft Only 3 out of 100 stolen laptops are ever recovered.
• Disaster Thousands of files are lost each year to fires, floods, and other disasters.
• Drive Failure Up to 13% of hard drives crash in their first year.

It requires a simple installation, and users choose to back up their entire hard drive or just parts of it. Carbonite then begins the backup process, uploading 2 GB per day over broadband until finished. Files are encrypted, and there is no limit on total storage. If you delete a file, Carbonite keeps it stored for 30 days in case you change your mind. Carbonite monitors files that are changed and backs them up right away. If you have a problem and need to get the data downloaded to a reformatted hard drive or new computer, Carbonite will download at up to 15GB per day over broadband until your system is restored.

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General Features

• Your computer is filled with irreplaceable files: emails, photos, music, business contacts and financials. Carbonite automatically and securely backs up the irreplaceable contents of your computer.
• Carbonite installs a small software program on your computer that works quietly in the background looking for new and changed files to back up. It looks and feels like part of your computer, and is integrated with your desktop, so theres nothing new to learn.
• Carbonite takes data privacy and security very seriously. Carbonite encrypts your files twice before backing them up securely offsite, using the same encryption techniques that banks use. Files remain encrypted at Carbonites secure data centers, so only you can see them.
• When your computer is idle, Carbonite automatically backs up new and changed files. You dont have to do anything! When youre using your computer, Carbonite goes to sleep so it will never slow down your computer or internet connection.
• With Carbonite, restoring files is quick and easy. If you accidentally delete or otherwise lose some of your files, it takes just a few clicks from your desktop to get them back. If your computer is damaged, stolen or just dies and you lose all your files, you can easily restore them to a new computer.

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New Features in Version 3.7

Carbonite Release 3.7 features other enhancements to the initial sign-up process. Upon installation, Carbonite will now automatically scan a user's computer for programs known to conflict with the installation of Carbonite. If any such programs are found, Carbonite will provide step-by-step instructions for how to work around the potential conflict, eliminating the need to contact Customer Support for assistance.

Features in Version 3.6

• Improves performance of Carbonite Backup Drive
• Speeds up backup of large files
• Helps you add files to your backup if you choose to back up manually
• Implements several other usability and performance enhancements

Features in Version 3.5

• Enhanced file restoration process
  • In the event of catastrophic data loss, Carbonites file restoration process has been enhanced to ensure users can be reunited with any lost files quickly and easily. Users will now see a tab that details the restoration progress, a recovery log displaying pending and recently restored files, and the option to stop the restore process at any point. A helpful restore wizard guides users through the restore process. It enables files to be automatically transferred from a particular Windows user account on a backed up PC, to another account on a new computer. The wizard also has the capacity to create a new Windows account to restore files to and can transfer files between an XP and Vista operated PC.
• Incremental backup
  • Incremental backup has also been included, so even the smallest changes to a document are constantly backed up, without unnecessary delays. This means a single updated cell in an Excel spreadsheet will be backed up on its own, instead of the entire document. This greatly improves backup speed.
• File versioning
  • This feature allows different versions of backed up files, created when a user makes changes or updates to an existing document, to be automatically saved for three months. Versions can easily be retrieved by right clicking on any backed up file and selecting Restore previous versions.
• Backup scheduling
  • In addition to the automatic backup, Version 3.5 offers users the option to schedule backups for specific times and days. A range of options are open to users, such as once a day backup or suspension of backup during busy times. Users can even tailor their own specific backup schedule through the advanced scheduling options.
• Optional private key encryption.
  • Users can be sure their data is kept private and secure.
• New interface and offers users a rapid response help service
  • Carbonites familiar dots are still present, but have been further enhanced. Green and yellow dots can now be found on folders as well as individual files, with green indicating the entire folder is backed up and yellow meaning at least one sub-folder is queued for backup. A new addition is the green doughnut (a green dot with a hole in the middle), which indicates all files selected for backup within a folder are backed up, but that some files within the folder have not been selected for backup. A new online help service and account management pages have been provided to improve user experience. At the same time, useful HTML tips and navigation are now displayed in the Carbonite backup drive, to aid users when browsing through their backed up files and recovering files.

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Carbonite - System Requirements

Operating systems

• Windows XP 32-bit and 64-bit versions
• Windows Vista 32-bit and 64-bit versions