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Originally Posted by fredr123
Can anyone share some thoughts on Carbonite?
Also, having tried using the external HD option to backup my iPhoto library and subsequently restore it, I wonder if anyone has any advice for removing duplicate photos from a photo library? I think my ill-fated recovery attempts have left three or more copies of some photos scattered throughout my computer for no real good reason.
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Carbonite will only backup internal drives. This made it a non-starter for my Mac Mini, which has an attached Drobo for mass storage. If you've only got a laptop, it wouldn't be an issue.
This is an important footnote for most, if not all, online backup solutions though - they aren't an archiving service. With Mozy, for example, if I detach an external drive from the system that was previously backed up to Mozy, after 30 days those files are removed from the cloud backup as they are deemed to be "gone", since the external drive is no longer attached to the system.
These products are meant to be backups of functioning, complete systems; not online storage of offline (or detached) archives.