Thanks Neil, that sounds good. Are you able to restore an individual file?
Max.
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Subject: Re: No Carbonite on the Mac
From: Neil Barnfather - TalkNav <for...@talknav.com>
To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com
Date: Tue, 3 Apr 2012 14:42:00 +0100
I use Carbonite on my Mac, have done since owning a Mac, circa October 2010. I
have it on all three of my Mac's.
The icon for it at the top of the screen near to the clock is, as others have
said, inaccessible.
However, it is easily accessed through the System Preferences menus. Given you
setup Carbonite and then can forget about it, this hardly seems a major
limitation to me.
I once a month nip into it, just to check all looks good, that the indicators
for how much data has been backed up etc are seeming right, and once a week I
leave my Mac on all night to ensure that the backup is completely up to date.
This is only necessary if you change / update a lot of content on a regular
bases.
The reason I specifically like Carbonite compared to a lot of the other backup
options out there is that it is fully automated, download, install, pay and
leave it alone. It just works.
You can use their web-site quite easily to check your specific files which are
currently backed up, you can, within the System Preferences controls indicate
an automatic backup, or a specific set of files / folders you want to be backed
up.
This is what I do, as i am not worried about applications or other such things,
I just backup all users Documents, Music, Movies and Pictures folders. This
gets all the essential stuff.
I also use Time Machine to backup all machines locally to a NAS.
But, yes, Carbonite works just fine for the most part, certainly if you just
want a point and shoot backup solution you can feel confident in, Carbonite
will not let you down.
Regards,
Neil Barnfather
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On 3 Apr 2012, at 10:25, Gigi wrote:
Hi guys
It's interesting that you should say that you had been able to use Carbonite
just fine. I tried to use Carbonite back in the days when I was using Windows.
I couldn't get it to work completely withdraws. Also, I did not have good luck
with their customer service. I called them and the customer support person just
didn't get it one tried to explain that I was trying to use the speech computer.
I'm buying all this up to say that it's real interesting that some of these
third-party companies say that things won't work with voiceover, and then folks
on this list start using the program. Four instance, the Abby find Wietor
people told me that their program wouldn't work with voiceover.
I know, some of you are talking about using it. So, what does that mean were
supposed to do if we want to know if something works with voice over for sure?
Regards
Gigi
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On Apr 3, 2012, at 3:39 AM, Dan Eickmeier<va3ets2...@me.com> wrote:
My experience with carbonite is that it actually is fairly accessible. ONe
issue I do have, is when I attempt to look at my backup, I can't drill down
into my backup, like I can any folder that has sub-folders in finder, I seem
to get taken back to the top level of my backup when attempting to do this.
It's interesting that Carbonite support actually said it's totally inaccessible
with VO. the system pref pane is actually not too bad in my opinion, with the
exception of that one issue. Carbonite like a lot of third-party apps does
have an item in the menu bar, which we cannot access. Aside from that, I've
actually been very happy with carbonite on the mac.
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