Experience with Carbonite? Other choices.

monkey44 wrote:
What did we do with it before 'online storage' ... why is that suddenly 'unsafe' ... and in fact, how much of what we save online is really necessary in life. So, it's more about a waste of money than paranoid.

Paper was the technology of our parents. Photos went into paper albums, and that was it. I'm sure very few people made backup copies. It wasn't practical, it was expensive and time-consuming. As for the unsafe part, paper photographs didn't crash or self-destruct.

Big difference from now, with digital cameras. People can easily take thousands of photos, keep every single one and never look at any of them. It's a hoarders' paradise. I have to agree with you on that point!