Carbonite Protects You From:
- Accidental Deletion: 43% of people lose irreplaceable files every year.
- Theft: Only 3 out of 100 stolen laptops are ever recovered.
- Disaster: Thousands of files are lost each year due to fires, floods, and other disasters.
- Drive Failure: Up to 13% of hard drives crash in their first year.
Online Backup
Carbonite offers cost effective online backup and a simple solution to automatically backup unlimited amounts of data online.
Carbonite Online Backup backs up your data automatically to an offsite location ensuring protection from hard drive failure, theft, natural disaster and accidental document deletions.
You may only touch your computer once a day, or you may spend all day working from it, it doesn’t really matter, backing up your PC is like brushing your teeth, you should do it regularly.
Most people say ‘I don’t understand how to backup’ or ‘I just don’t get around to doing it’, but when your hard drive fails, all your work files, emails, contacts, invoices, financial records could be gone forever. Why take that risk?
Protecting your information should be as important to you as protecting your PC from viruses. You probably have virus protection on your PC, but did you know there is only a 1% chance of losing files directly as a result of a virus attack? You have a 1 in 8 chance of suffering a hard drive failure (regardless of whether the PC is new or not).
There are many ways to backup your PC: external hard drive, USB flash drives, CD, DVD, tape… but none is as safe and convenient as the Online Backup solution provided by Carbonite. It sounds like a service reserved for big business, but anyone can benefit from Carbonite’s Online Backup.
The key benefit comes down to simplicity and convenience. In most cases, you could begin your protection literally within minutes. With online backup solutions you don’t need to purchase or install any hardware. All you need to do is download the Carbonite application from the web and the backup process can start immediately.
The biggest bonus with Carbonite’s Online Backup is that it can be a “set and forget” solution. In addition, because your data is stored offsite on a remote server, not in your home, even if your PC was lost/stolen or your house burnt down, your data is never lost. You can also download your data to a new PC within minutes.
You can read more about the benefits of remote backup, and off-site data protection at Wikipedia.
What about security?
Your data is protected at the point of leaving your PC and is safely stored offsite with encryption level standards used by banks.
Why Carbonite?
It’s simple:
- Automatic
- Online
- Unlimited
- Cost Effective
How much does it cost?
Carbonite costs just AU$71.95 per annum. That’s around $6 per month for a whole lot of peace of mind.