Experience with Carbonite? Other choices.

2oldman wrote:

monkey44 wrote:
Even, how many have actually had a RV burn and lost all your data, AND your home, and your shop, and your work - or whatever. It's beyond my brain to imagine that happening all at once same day to a person, and if it does, you are the most unlucky person in the USA.

All these "online storage bins' just want the entire country to get so paranoid about "Data" that everyone will pay that monthly fee. AND, who's to say that server is safer than my safe? It's fireproof.
too.
Tragic events happen ... but the idea that virtual storage is safe? Not any safer than any other options available to everyone. And I'd for sure never, ever put my personal stuff up on some "cloud" that any employee (or tech miner) can get, copy, whatever ... Just seems very odd to me...

Paranoia is in the mind of the paranoiac. Yours appears to be about online services, while chastising others for being paranoid about buildings burning. You also act as if it's quite probable your data WILL be hacked. To me that's paranoia, to you, prudence.

Like the man said, why don't you keep your money at home? Of course, the answer is, you drew the line, somewhere. At some point you MUST trust something. You trust a hard drive in your house, I and many others trust online backups, but not necessarily as the only source.

What seems odd to me is the stuff people keep in storage, like bank statements, bill, receipts..stuff I'd toss almost immediately. And some have Terabytes of it! To me that's hoarding, to them, it's comfort. So be it.

Risk tolerance is quite different for each and every one of us.

There is MORE to things than worrying about data being hacked..

Folks who SOLELY "depend" on "online" storage as a means to safeguard or keep a backup ARE being foolish.

I HAVE discovered over the years, just because it is sitting on a online server somewhere out in the world YOUR BACKED UP DATA CAN DISAPPEAR with no notice, no trace..

I myself have had the pleasure of paying for online storage and eventually they lost my files or in one case the WEBSITE AND COMPANY CEASED TO EXIST OVER NIGHT. Gone without a trace, email didn't work, phone number quit working and website gone (and my files)..

Use caution and setup your OWN backup to the backup rescue plan.. You can get 1 TB Hard drives in the laptop size, fits in your pocket and costs less than $80..

Fortunately for me, my files were not sole backups...