They get decent reviews on backup experience, mostly their "Set it and Forget It" approach and the easy-to-understand user interface, both of which I do appreciate. This is the whole point of Carbonite - get your files back after you've lost them!Īny ideas on what to do to make Carbonite increase the pitiful restore speed? Anybody knows of a cloud storage program with a demonstrably faster restore speed? Surprisingly, I could not find any reports of Carbonite backup & restore speeds online. But imagine if the disk had crashed and I had no fall-back. Thankfully, I still have a local copy on my old computer's disk so I may have to connect the old disk and copy the files locally. check that your ISP provides enough of reliable bandwidth, don't use your computer to prevent restore slowdown, keep computer on overnight. I've contacted Carbonite support and received a prompt but useless & canned regurgitation of information from their Knowledge Base (e.g. not able to be verified to exist on my computer with Carbonite subscription) will be deleted from Carbonite's servers for ever after 30 days. Carbonite says that any files deleted from my computer (i.e. Not only will I not be able to add any new files to the backup because my current backup must be "frozen" in the Recover mode, Carbonite may actually start deleting my old files from their servers should the restore hit any snags over the upcoming weeks. ![]() ![]() I'm totally upset and disappointed with the current Carbonite Restore speed of only ~2.4Mb/s! This translates into about 1 GB/hour and therefore at this COMICALLY SLOW rate it will take me about 10 days (!) to restore my backup. While creating the Carbonite backup over the past 8 years on my old & clunky Dell I used to see routinely 20-30Mb/s upload speeds to Carbonite. ![]() I'm restoring from my Carbonite backup (236GB/100,000 files) onto a brand-new & fast computer (AMD Ry/ 16BG RAM / 1TB SSD / Fios 1Gb/s).
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