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Title: Online back-up
Post by: jesterapparel on August 05, 2011, 04:24:46 PM: What do you use? I have Norton and it freezes my computer. Can't even get the online backup site to load.
I just doubled my memory in my computer to see if that would help, it helped with other issues but not with the online back-up. Any good ones out there? I'll probably switch to something else once my year is up.
Title: Re: Online back-up
Post by: tpitman on August 05, 2011, 05:22:37 PM: Carbonite. Works great and it's pretty cheap. Won't back up your system, though.
Title: Re: Online back-up
Post by: Binkspot on August 05, 2011, 08:10:06 PM: We use the Apple Mobil Me and a portable hard drive.
Title: Re: Online back-up
Post by: Fresh Baked Printing on August 05, 2011, 10:29:26 PM: Back-up to an external drive (E:) AND I keep my "important" files on the secondary drive (D:).
When a drive fails, it seems it's always the primary drive (C:) since that's the drive that's always churning.
Title: Re: Online back-up
Post by: inkbrigade on August 05, 2011, 11:47:31 PM: I don't want to sound like an "Apple Guy" but our macs work great. We use backblaze.com for online backups.
Title: Re: Online back-up
Post by: mk162 on August 07, 2011, 12:20:00 PM: drop norton, I haven't seen anything from them that doesn't slow computers down to a crawl. Go with eset NOD for anti-virus and get carbonite.
Title: Re: Online back-up
Post by: squeezee on August 07, 2011, 01:06:25 PM: AVG or Avira are less greedy.
Zonealarm is much better than Windows.
Title: Re: Online back-up
Post by: Fresh Baked Printing on August 07, 2011, 05:47:51 PM: If you use Comcast (and maybe other providers), they give you a full AV program for free. My Norton AV is great.
Title: Re: Online back-up
Post by: squeezee on August 07, 2011, 06:11:24 PM: Quote from: inkbrigade on August 05, 2011, 11:47:31 PM
I don't want to sound like an "Apple Guy" but our macs work great. We use backblaze.com for online backups.
Do Macs use a different sort of hard drive then?
Title: Re: Online back-up
Post by: tpitman on August 08, 2011, 03:12:51 AM: No. Current models use SATA drives.
Title: Re: Online back-up
Post by: tpitman on August 18, 2011, 02:10:27 PM: Just got an email notifying me that Carbonite is now compatible with Mac OSX Lion for those who use it. Update is automatic upon login.