Within a 9 month period of time, my hard drive failed about 4 times, but the first was by far the worst. Because I had installed Carbonite about a year before, I thought I had insured myself against data loss. But, there was one major problem. When the drive failed and I needed my backup, I realized that I had selected the option to keep my own encryption key instead of having Carbonite store it for me. That was my downfall and a mistake that I’ve since corrected. However, it cost me a lot of personal and business data that will never be retrieved. So beware and be sure that there is more than one way to access your data in case the need arises.
Don’t Get Caught Without A Recent Backup
Within a 9 month period of time, my hard drive failed about 4 times, but the first was by far the worst. Because I had installed Carbonite about a year before, I thought I had insured myself against data loss. But, there was one major problem. When the drive failed and I needed my backup, I realized that I had selected the option to keep my own encryption key instead of having Carbonite store it for me. That was my downfall and a mistake that I’ve since corrected. However, it cost me a lot of personal and business data that will never be retrieved. So beware and be sure that there is more than one way to access your data in case the need arises.