Re: [MBZ] Carbonite: si or no?

2010-09-21 Thread archer
Thanks, Scott. Gerry -- - Original Message - From: "Scott Ritchey" I use Acronis for full image backup, which can be full, incremental, or differential. Acronis also does scheduled backups of selected folders ... but the whole system takes too long s

Re: [MBZ] Carbonite: si or no?

2010-09-19 Thread Scott Ritchey
From: mercedes-boun...@okiebenz.com [mailto:mercedes-boun...@okiebenz.com] On Behalf Of archer Sent: Sunday, September 19, 2010 05:46 To: Mercedes Discussion List Subject: Re: [MBZ] Carbonite: si or no? From: "Scott Ritchey" I also > occasionally back up the complete system image to my N

Re: [MBZ] Carbonite: si or no?

2010-09-19 Thread archer
From: "Scott Ritchey" I also occasionally back up the complete system image to my NAS or external USB drive. This really saved my bacon when the hard drive puked and died in my notebook machine. Instead of days of finding and loading software, I just restored from the last image to a new har

Re: [MBZ] Carbonite: si or no?

2010-09-18 Thread Rich Thomas
I tried a year or two ago to recover some data from some old zip disks. It was so slow, and windows kept disallowing some files to be transferred for reasons unclear (windows has a nasty habit of hitting some file it does not like when you are moving a bunch, and just quitting the transfer rat

Re: [MBZ] Carbonite: si or no?

2010-09-18 Thread Scott Ritchey
d from the last image to a new hard drive. That took less than an hour. Scott -Original Message- From: mercedes-boun...@okiebenz.com [mailto:mercedes-boun...@okiebenz.com] On Behalf Of Craig Sent: Friday, September 17, 2010 16:47 To: mercedes@okiebenz.com Subject: Re: [MBZ] Carbonite

Re: [MBZ] Carbonite: si or no?

2010-09-18 Thread OK Don
I recently plugged a parallel port zip disk into a Vista box and it worked fine. On Sat, Sep 18, 2010 at 10:32 AM, Mountain Man wrote: > This reminds me of old data I have on zip disks. > I wonder if any OS supports that type of drive anymore. > I am running ArchLinux now - it is nice. > mao - O

Re: [MBZ] Carbonite: si or no?

2010-09-18 Thread Peter Frederick
Any drive with a standard interface should work just fine. Might need to get a SCSI card if you have a SCSI zip, though. Don't wait too long, eventually the disks will die. Peter ___ http://www.okiebenz.com For new and used parts go to www.okiebenz.com T

Re: [MBZ] Carbonite: si or no?

2010-09-18 Thread Mountain Man
This reminds me of old data I have on zip disks. I wonder if any OS supports that type of drive anymore. I am running ArchLinux now - it is nice. mao ___ http://www.okiebenz.com For new and used parts go to www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.oki

Re: [MBZ] Carbonite: si or no?

2010-09-17 Thread Walt Zarnoch
Just use truecrypt with S3 then ;) Walt On Sep 17, 2010 10:21 PM, "Tim C" wrote: I have been considering Amazon S3. Hard to beat the price for offsite, redundant backup, cheaper than RAIDing insignificant stuff (or stuff that I don't care if it takes a while to get back, at least) too. Only p

Re: [MBZ] Carbonite: si or no?

2010-09-17 Thread Tim C
I have been considering Amazon S3. Hard to beat the price for offsite, redundant backup, cheaper than RAIDing insignificant stuff (or stuff that I don't care if it takes a while to get back, at least) too. Only problem is that I am likely to hold on to too much junk that way. :) Not too worried

Re: [MBZ] Carbonite: si or no?

2010-09-17 Thread Craig
On Fri, 17 Sep 2010 09:01:39 -0700 (PDT) Van Knutson wrote: > Re: discussions of crashed hard drives, what does the august body > assembled here think of carbonite--the $54.95 unlimited online data > backup service? I don't have any experience with them, but I am hesitant with storing all my inf

[MBZ] Carbonite: si or no?

2010-09-17 Thread Van Knutson
Re: discussions of crashed hard drives, what does the august body assembled here think of carbonite--the $54.95 unlimited online data backup service? DBV, inquiring mind wants to know information  minister ___ http://www.okiebenz.com For new and used pa