

Is Carbonite being stopped when my machine goes to sleep, and restarting when I wake it up? Also, the box labeled "put the hard disk to sleep when possible" is checked. Like many here, my only work-around has been to Pause/Unpause Carbonite, and occasionally Re-Install the application.Ĭould my MacBook power settings have anything to do with the problem? My settings are set to put both the computer and display to sleep after ten minutes of inactivity. but five hours later it was still churning away, "backing up." Unless Casper the Friendly Ghost was downloading HD feature films all night, there couldn't have been any new files put on my hard drive that needed to be backed up. Last night, for example, it supposedly began a backup at midnight. For a day or two after that, it ran fine again. I watched as he jumped through the depths of the various Carbonite file trees, deleting files as he went. Recently, it has begun to run backups far too often (and for far too long.) I called Carbonite a few days ago and was passed to a second-level support tech, who I allowed to take control of my computer. (If you don't count the trip to the Genius Bar to ascertain why my fan seemed to be constantly running.) Within the past six months, Carbonite has begun to hog most of my processor at very inopportune times. I have used Carbonite on my v10.6.8 Snow Leopard MacBook without much of a problem for more than two years until recently. I'll give that a try and I really appreciate the idea sharing. I know of these, but they are not necessarily automatic and I'm looking for an offsite backup that is basically virtual.Īrc looks incredibly interesting.

I think I'll accept that now.Īs for CarbonCop圜loner and SuperDuper. I've Spent too much time on this and am going to give up on them.
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Thus, Carbonite isn't very good on the mac since its really only doing the bare minimum. This is even after I have basically deselected everything and am only backing up my documents. I have to say that the support team has really tried and been very good on the phone (once you get past level 1), but in the end, they are only support.Ĭarbonite clearly has a lack of development ability (or care) when it comes to their mac versions. I have spent a lot of time with Carbonite's support.
