![]() My backup routine works well, and I've tested restoring my boot drive from the image, and restoring individual files, and everything works as it should. Every few months, I take the backup drive out of the docking station and take it off-site and I install a clean backup drive in the docking station and start again. I backup each hard drive to a separate True Image file on the external drive - each time I install a clean backup drive, I first make a complete image for each drive, then I do incremental backups weekly. I have a USB3 docking station attached, that lets me backup to cheap "internal" hard drives, or to clone an entire drive. I keep all my programs and Windows on an SSD, which gives me very fast booting and program loading, all my photos on one regular SATA hard drive, all my video work on another SATA hard drive, and my other data on a third SATA hard drive. I've used Acronis True Image to backup my system for years. I tried testing the restore with Carbonite a couple times and it was so time consuming that it was unuseable!! Also if I have an internal hard drive failure I can use Macrium Reflect to restore all or part of my system without having to reload programs, etc. ![]() The whole process takes about three hours a week and I have no recurring costs. In between these weekly backups I use a DVD backup for any new photos, documents, etc. So I really can't recommend Carbonite to anyone! I bought a couple 1TB external hard drives (about $80 each) and now use Macrium Reflect (the free version) once a week to backup my entire PC and keep one of them off site all the time. The service only backsup what is actually on the PC - no external drives. After two months I had to take it of my PC because it had brought everything else to their knees - SLOOOOW! BTW they don't give refunds for unused time and that should have told me something. ![]()
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