Consumer-Friendly PC backup tools emerge

Iria · Jul 25, 2006, 08:39 PM

Source: Yahoo! News
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BOSTON - Shalin Mody's computer held innumerable things he'd love to have forever: TV shows, video games, papers and more than 50 gigabytes of music. So normally he would have panicked the day the PC completely failed, unable to start up.

Fortunately, the 26-year-old investment manager had only weeks earlier come across a blog describing Carbonite, an inexpensive new service that backed up everything on his PC over the Internet and stored it remotely.

When he bought a replacement PC, Carbonite repopulated it with his old files.

"It was extremely lucky," Mody said. "I just didn't stress too much."

Jul 25, 2006, 08:39 PM	#1
Iria DriverHeaven Extreme Member Join Date: Apr 2004 Posts: 7,275 Rep Power: 89	Consumer-Friendly PC backup tools emerge Source: Yahoo! News ___________ BOSTON - Shalin Mody's computer held innumerable things he'd love to have forever: TV shows, video games, papers and more than 50 gigabytes of music. So normally he would have panicked the day the PC completely failed, unable to start up. Fortunately, the 26-year-old investment manager had only weeks earlier come across a blog describing Carbonite, an inexpensive new service that backed up everything on his PC over the Internet and stored it remotely. When he bought a replacement PC, Carbonite repopulated it with his old files. "It was extremely lucky," Mody said. "I just didn't stress too much."