At a glance
Expert note
Pros
- Unlimited storage space on the three subscription levels
- 15 -day practical trial that does not require a credit or debit card
- Simple interface and good download and file restoration options
Disadvantages
- Strange installation and complete disk option must be verified in confidentiality and security preferences as opposed to the installation program offering this option
- Mac -specific videos / help tutorials seem to be missing on the carbonite website
- Does not offer backup options for local external volumes
Our verdict
Carbonite Safe wins its reputation and the application is easy to work with, download and restore. There is something good here – it is really worth your consideration.
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Price during the examination
$ 71.99 per year, a Mac (Basic)
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$ 71.99
There is something to say for the creation of an application that does not have a ton of bells and whistles, but instead, fulfills its basic functions, records and restores the data and builds its reputation in this way. This is the key premise of SAFE carbonite, which requires MacOS 10.13 (high sierra) or later to install and execute.
Carbonite SAFE starts at the base plan of $ 6 / month or $ 71.99, with its more and first subscription plans offering access to web antiviral software, allowing an external volume to download, and additional messaging services for recovered data files if necessary. The company even offers a free 15 -day trial without any credit card or debit information that must be sent, rare today.
Carbonite Safe has long been considered an excellent application to store online data and it is easy to see why. After installing the software and granting full access to the hard drive of your Mac, it is easy to choose specific files and folders to download in an unlimited storage space, even under the basic account.
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You can select specific backup data, such as your office office, documents, downloads, images, music or movies, or choose the entire Mac internal hard drive to save and carbonite SAFE will plunge into the task, regularly download your data from the company's servers.
Foundry
True to the form as a recovery user, the application recovery features are impressive and can either download data and insert it in its original location or in a specified location. This, in turn, can help recharge all your previous data on a crushed and rebuilt Mac, although your data flow on the Internet can be slower than cloning your previous data from a time machine or other local backup reader.
However, there are wrinkles to repel. Although this is not a break in constraints, the installation and configuration of the full access to the hard drive of my Mac have been a little more difficult than expected, and instead that the installer performs this task and asking me for the password of the system, he suggested that I open my confidentiality and safety parameters, locate the safe carbonite and add this to myself, which was a bit intended.
Foundry
With regard to other weaknesses, the basic subscription does not cover the automatic backup of video files, which seems arbitrary (although logical, because these tend to be the most important files of your hard drive, and you can see where Carbonite would charge a little more to store them).
Finally, although the application offers quick access to its help files and its assistance site, the educational videos of the Mac version of Carbonite Safe seem to be untraceable, which looks like an ardent kick in the teeth of the company's marketing service.
If you buy carbonite safe
There is something good here, and if you have heard positive things about carbonite safe over the years, these positive comments are valid. It is easy to save your data, restore it, select exactly where it will go, and it is one of the few utilities that can help take a crushed Mac and effectively restore all your data if you are ready to wait for everything to download (instead of using Time Machine on an external player or other local backup technique). As such, it is worth trying and which is potentially worth subscribing. It is not the most flashy application, but she knows what she needs to achieve and accomplish this, and despite some weaknesses that could be reproduced, this is worthy of your attention.
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