Carbonite to offer Mac online backup

Now Carbonite wants my online backup business. We’ll see about that….

A couple of days ago I wrote about my frustrating experience with Mozy’s online backup service for Mac. This morning I heard from David Friend, the CEO of Carbonite, a popular online backup service for PC users. Apparently they’re about to start testing a Mac backup option. Here’s what he said:

“I read your post about Mozy’s Mac product not working very well. Sorry to hear that. Hopefully ours will be a lot better — it’s looking very good so far. We been testing Carbonite Online Backup for Mac and the public beta will be starting within a couple of months. Our Mac front end was designed by a well-known Mac development house that does a lot of work for Apple, so they really know the Mac environment. The testing has been going great. The beta program will be free, of course. If you or your readers would like to participate in the beta program, just send and email to beta@carbonite.com and we’ll notify as soon as the beta program officially starts.”

Ah, another beta… Hopefully this one will be free. I don’t mind so much being a guinea pig (within reason), but I hate paying for that “privilege.”

What the hell, I’ll sign up. We’ll see how this one goes. Wish me luck.
But in the meantime, I’m still looking for a more immediate and proven option for Mac-friendly offsite backup. Suggestions, please?

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Ouch! That hurts but I stand corrected. We will certainly try and more accurately direct our strategic comments in the future.

Dov Sugarman
CEO
Zoogmo - Your Online Backup Community

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1. Dov Sugarman on November 12th, 2007 at 9:01 am
Dov, I appreciate you wanting to push your product, but what you wrote obviously has nothing to do with serving Mac users — which was the point of this post. Pretty crappy marketing tactic. But I’ll let your comment remain as an excellent example of how *not* to do strategic commenting.

- Amy Gahran

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2. Amy Gahran on November 11th, 2007 at 11:53 am
Hi Amy,

While a Mac version is still a bit down the road for us, I wanted to let you know about a cool backup program that offers FREE and UNLIMITED backup.

With Zoogmo you control where your files are backed up by building a backup network of your own or your friends’ computers. You can even backup to an external hard drive of your choice.

Zoogmo runs silently in the background and automatically backs up ALL of your data over the internet, using a combination of Triple-DES and AES 256 encryption to make sure that only you have access to your files.

Check out the Zoogmo beta at http://www.zoogmo.com to download Zoogmo for free and begin turning your social network into your backup network.

Remember, with Zoogmo you have no annoying monthly fees - totally free unlimited backup you can trust!

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3. Dov Sugarman on November 8th, 2007 at 1:27 am
This is exciting news. I beta tested Carbonite on the PC at my office, and it was outstanding. It works absolutely silently in the background without degrading performance at all. Set it and forget it! I’ve been waiting for something like this for the Mac, so I’ll definitely be signing up for the beta.

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4. Amy Laskin on November 7th, 2007 at 3:19 pm
Amy: Yes, the beta will be free. A paid subscription will be $49.95 per year for unlimited backup, just like our PC offer. There aren’t a lot of good choices for Mac – either the products are very expensive or they don’t seem to work very well. I can’t wait to get ours in the market – Apple is very excited about Carbonite, too.

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5. Dave Friend on November 7th, 2007 at 8:39 am