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Originally Posted by sethm1
And I am assuming you meant "off" site ("... then best to keep it out of site most of the time.)..."
I have been using Carbonite for over a year now- so that Library back up is just another (back up).
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No I meant out of sight. I personally do not feel your back-ups should be right there side by side with your originals so I would discourage adding them to your libraries. Otherwise you could easily start editing the back-up and then you end up with the latest copy of some things on one drive and some on your back-up. In fact I keep my back-up drive off-line except when making back-ups.
If your back-up drive is always connected than any virus that can infect your C: drive can also infect your back-ups. Also, because my external is not powered on except when I want to make a Back-up I do not use any type of scheduling; I manually turn on the HD and manually run synctoy.
Carbonite is offsite, so yeah that's great if your computer is stolen or house is swallowed by a sinkhole, etc and is in a league with business level recovery. On the other hand, if someone hacks carbonite then I hope you aren't backing up personal information.
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