welcome to our product run through of carbonite's online backup and storage software brought to you by technologyadvice and their smart advisor tool which allows you to compare 50 cloud storage companies in under two minutes once you've downloaded carbonite and installed the software you'll interact with it primarily through their info center which you see on the screen here there are five tabs on the left the first one is backup which gives you a general overview of carbonite of what files carbonite is backed up including the number of files if a backup is in progress and a tab allowing you to turn the online backup on or off the next tab is restore which allows you to search all the files that carbonite is backed up for you and restore selected files if you've lost one browse all of the files that carbonite is backed up or do a complete system restore if you've had a hard drive failure the third tab is settings which allows you to edit your backup frequency or change which files and folders are backed up and also allows you to make some minor changes to their user interface such as changing the colors on the file and folder color coordination system the fourth tab is the accounts which shows you the type of account you have with carbonite how long you have left on your subscription and the software version including telling you if it's up to date it also includes a link to their web interface where you can change your personal information such as your email address and password the last tab is help which is one of carbonite's best features instead of a standard frequently asked questions or text document it has a series of videos answering most questions a user will encounter such as how to tell what's backed up how to access your files from the web or how to restore files so that's the carbonite system pros of carbonite are its simple user interface it's easy to use and pretty much a set and forget system which is great for businesses who have a lot of desktops to worry about the help videos as well are nicer than text documents and easier for most people to use carbonite also has a very simple pricing model it's pay per unit of storage so you pay a set fee for a whole year which gives you a block of storage and you can divide that between an unlimited number of computers or users some of the drawbacks to carbonite include no linux support they also do not offer 24 7 customer support via the phone so users will have to use their help videos hopefully this has given you a better understanding for carbonite's online backup software before making a final decision though we recommend you compare it to other storage and backup options just to make sure you can do this easily and in under two minutes using the technologyadvice smart advisor tool thanks for watching this run through you
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Carbonite is one of many Cloud Storage and Backup services listed in Technology Advice’s database. Since we’ve learned so much about the product’s specs, we decided to provide you with a brief review as well as a first-hand look at the user interface.Check out our full overview of Carbonite or our Cloud Backup & Storage […]
Carbonite is one of many Cloud Storage and Backup services listed in Technology Advice’s database. Since we’ve learned so much about the product’s specs, we decided to provide you with a brief review as well as a first-hand look at the user interface.
Check out our full overview of Carbonite or our Cloud Backup & Storage Software Guide.
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