Right now IвЂ™m testing Acronis True Image and itвЂ™s a superior product in every way вЂ“ I love what I see so far.Д«ut I did realize something вЂ“ there arenвЂ™t a lot of options out there for reliable cloud backup services. YouвЂ™re asked to pay a premium price for an entry-level product, and not even question why.Д¬arbonite doesnвЂ™t offer me anything like the range of features I enjoyed with Mozy and combined with a laughably poor interface IвЂ™m now looking for a replacement. ItвЂ™s not вЂ“ unless youвЂ™re completely deluded. ItвЂ™s like being downgraded from 1st class on Emirates to the baggage hold on a budget airline and being told itвЂ™s the same thing. No dual backup вЂ“ no way to backup to another internal drive as well as to the cloudДЄnd theyвЂ™re just the flaws IвЂ™ve come across so far.Д¬arbonite is an extremely, extremely limited backup service.File type restriction вЂ“ doesnвЂ™t back up certain file types.No file manager вЂ“ unless you login to their site.Interface вЂ“ apparently designed by Fisher-Price.Backup speed вЂ“ almost two days to back up 25GB of data.The current version of Carbonite is вЂњbetterвЂќ but it still sucks in important areas:

Nothing about it appealed to me then, and I find myself in the same position today. It was horribly slow and struggled to complete backups. I evaluated Carbonite over a decade ago, and absolutely hated it back then. I never rated it as a backup service, and now after using it for a few days, I can see why they had to acquire Mozy вЂ“ they were never going to catch up to it. So, Mozy was acquired by Carbonite in 2018, and now in early 2019, IвЂ™m going through the migration process.ДonвЂ™t get me wrong вЂ“ Carbonite is okay, but only barely вЂњokayвЂќ. TheyвЂ™re not smart enough to create a better product, so they just raise a pile of capital and buy out the competitor instead. So, no matter what all those вЂњreviewsвЂќ of Carbonite actually said, Mozy was the clear winner for me and tens of thousands of other users.Д«ut then we saw what often happens in tech when Company A canвЂ™t compete with Company B вЂ“ a buyout. I think I had one serious technical problem (software update) in my 13 years of using Mozy, and that was fixed with an overnight patch.ДЄ backup would stall because of an open or locked file, or some other random problem, but they were so rare I didnвЂ™t care.

I didnвЂ™t have to go poking and prodding it or worry that it would miss a backup or crash my PC. Just one glowing review after another, despite the fact that the average child could see Carbonite just wasnвЂ™t up to scratch.Д«ut Mozy had a secret weapon вЂ“ it worked really well.

In fact, there almost appeared to be a bias towards Carbonite in the tech media. I saw the reviews that were critical of the idea of вЂњreticulating splinesвЂќ (still no idea what that means), and that Carbonite and other products were far superior. I really wanted a solution to my problem, but nothing came close.ДЄnd then in 2006 I found Mozy, and just fell in love with it. I even went as far as uploading my files to a secure FTP site because I couldnвЂ™t find any online file backup service that actually worked.Д®very product I tried struggled with firewalls or anti-virus software, stopped uploading or went out of business. In fact, IвЂ™ve forgotten half of the backup services IвЂ™ve tried in the past. IвЂ™ve used online file backup services for longer than I can remember вЂ“ way before people called them вЂњcloud backup servicesвЂќ.

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