Where's the carbonite MAC Client
I've mentioned this before, I love carbonite! I had it on my PC for a long time, specifically up until the day I finished transfering my files and such over to my MacBook Pro. Since then I have been trying product after product and liking none. ChronoSnyc is pretty good, but needs a scheduler and is prone to hiccup with my files.
Carbonite has been promising a Mac version for some time.
" We're currently hard at work on a Mac version, and hope to release it in early 2007."
There's an email address to sign up for the beta, which at least for me, has resulted in nothing! I've emailed that address, the marketing guy from Brian's blog entry, and even a support gal suggested the beta. To no avail. I'd take a beta version any day over what i have now.
I have no doubt programming a mac version ain't the same as a PC version, but come on guys, the market is there! You're getting rave reviews from the PC space. Leopard (and Time Machine) aren't due out for a while to come.
Come on Carbonite! We're waiting for you!
I feel you. I still am only marginally happy with my set up. I hate scheduled that fire. Whenever I'm offline, I have to stop them, cancel them, abort them, it's lame.
I'm sure going from PC version to Windows isn't cake, but it's been long enough, and the mac ain't new for crying out loud.
I've pinged the beta sign up email several times, nuttin' My good will is rapidly diminishing.
To me what sucks. if they could have gotten the mac client out the door and gotten people signed up before Leopard and Time Machine, they'd have the high ground. Doesn't look like that is the case. I haven't even seen anyone blog about the beta.
You'll need to sign up for the beta program.
August 28, 2007 - From e-week.com
http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,2176715,00.asp
"We went against the conventional industry practice of giving away free-forever limited-space trial accounts of 2 or 3 gigabytes and instead adopted a limited-time unlimited-capacity trial," Carbonite co-founder and President David Friend told eWEEK.
A Macintosh beta version is coming in October, he said.
"We get dozens of emails from Mac users every week, begging, pleading and cajoling us for a Mac version of Carbonite," Friend explained. "And we are happy to provide them with their own version soon."
Cya, Mtxo
Cool, thanks for the heads up. I've been using Moxy for a while now, the early beta's left much (to me) to be desired, the latest seems ok. Carbonite pretty much has lost the mac fight without ever being in it I think.
1, Moxy is already aout and quites nice
2, "october"? Guessing mr. Friend isn't a mac user nor speaks to any or follows the news. October will see the release of Leopard which will have something that is purported to be what Moxy and Carbonite offer, minus the actual HDD space. I'm guessing it will be too little too late for Carbonite :(
I've had Mozy for a nearly a year and have yet to get a full backup. I do have 781.6GB to backup (lots of scans, video etc). I like the concept of Mozy, but I hope the implementation improves a lot!
Yeah carbonite missed the boat, they may as well close up mac dev, the ship has sailed. Sad to see what I consider a market leader, completely fumble the ball like that.
I haven't reinstalled mozy yet, but am thinking it'll be a good option. I've got a 250gb local that Time Machine backs up to, but thinking Mozy for my travels will be a good option, when the portable isn't an option.
For the whole time I used Mozy I too never got fully backed up. They really shoudl devote a few more devs to getting the mac version stable. It's still beta for crying out loud. I know it's not just "Write some new lines of code" god how I know that. But still it's taking a sort of ridiculously long time.