Using Carbonite with new iMac

[gothamciti]

I'm getting ready to buy a new iMac. I've pretty much decided on the iMac with the SSD and 1TB drive.

I currently have a Carbonite account that I will be transferring to the new machine. Carbonite will only back up an internal drive. Will there be any issues with 2 internal drives?

Are there any new iMac owners out there that use Carbonite?

Thanks for your help.

 

[rufhausen]

I'm getting ready to buy a new iMac. I've pretty much decided on the iMac with the SSD and 1TB drive.

I currently have a Carbonite account that I will be transferring to the new machine. Carbonite will only back up an internal drive. Will there be any issues with 2 internal drives?

Are there any new iMac owners out there that use Carbonite?

Thanks for your help.

This doesn't answer your question as I don't have experience with Carbonite, but you might want to consider Backblaze if Carbonite doesn't do multiple drives. Backblaze will do multiple drives, including externals.

 

[Cmu93]

I'm using Crashplan. It does externals, and for free it will backup to other computers in your home network... you have to pay to use the online backup.

T

 

[AppleFan360]

I haven't check yet but I believe in Carbonite you can select which drives/file folders you wish to backup.

 

[Berknip]

I'm using Crashplan. It does externals, and for free it will backup to other computers in your home network... you have to pay to use the online backup.

T

+1 for CrashPlan. I know this isn't the answer you seek, but I looked at a lot of online offerings, including Carbonite, and it seemed to fit my needs best as I have quite a few external drives.

 

[gothamciti]

Thanks for everyone's advice. I'm ordering my iMac. If I have any trouble with Carbonite, I'll switch to another service. Probably CrashPlan. I've heard a lot of good things about them recently.

 

[johnfkitchen]

Another +1 for CrashPlan.

Choose any disks, folders or files to backup.
Have multiple backup destinations concurrently.
Destinations can be folders, internal disks, external disks, LAN-attached computers or WAN-attached.
Any mix of Macs and PCs.
You only pay if you want CrashPlan to provide the storage.

 

[badmoth]

Yes you can! I currently backup multiple internal HDD's with Carbonite. It's a PC (Windows 7) but I don't know why it would be different with OSX. Good luck.

 

[dead flag blues]

+1 for CrashPlan

I'm very happy with CrashPlan. I back up my iMac and 2 externals. Even my mother, who is 73 years old, uses it.