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Will Carbonite also backup programs and applications in a form that would allow them to be installed and run without the hassle of rebuilding ones pc in a crash?
April 9th, 2009 - Posted by Joe
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Q: Will [Carbonite] also backup programs and applications in a form that would allow them to be installed and run without the hassle of rebuilding ones pc in a crash?
A: By default Carbonite only backs up your data and files in the Documents and Settings folder or your User's folder of your Windows PC, depending on whether you have XP or Vista. It does not backup a disk image. You can manually set the software backup to include program files, system files, and temporary files. Some applications could be reinstalled just by restoring them from Carbonite's site.
However, Windows locks some system files during operation that would be needed to restore the operating system and some applications. Backing up and restoring these files, like the registry, would require other programs or scripts to be run to extract these locked files for backup. Of course, you would have to load a new operating system on the computer and the Carbonite program before you could access and download the files that had been saved to your Carbonite account.
You can learn more about Carbonite by visiting our comparison and reviews of online backup services.
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June 14th, 2009 at 7:12 pm
I am a Carbonite customer. I've never had to use it to restore anything. I'm also backing up my hard drive on a seperate hard drive. I've loaded a "virgin" OS with all the programs I'm likely to use, plus my documents, then made sure they functioned. this way, If something crashes, I have a "pristine" system (with all my programs loaded and configured)with which to start my Carbinite restore. What I'm wondering is, is there an online service that does this? After all, the whole point of a backup solution is to minimize the time and aggravation of recreating lost data. The only other solution that comes to mind is some sort of Slipstreaming of the OS to include the installation of my programs, and I'd still need a backup of my documents. Help me out here. Any suggestions?
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