AVG Online Backup – Powered by Carbonite
I was working on my Aunt’s computer last night and after I reinstalled Windows XP, I had to put AVG back on. I went to AVG’s website and saw that they had something new. They are offering 2GB free online backup that’s powered by Carbonite. You can sign up here.
After you fill in your email address and desired password, you can download the required software. After you install the software, you will see “AVG Online Backup Drive” in My Computer and a shortcut to it on your desktop. You will also see a lock icon in the system tray and colored dots on some of your files/folders. The colored dots is an option that you can change if you want (see the middle image below). If you double-click on the lock in the system tray, it brings up the AVG InfoCenter.
To initiate a backup, just right-click on the file/folder and choose “AVG Online Backup > Back this up”. After choosing everything that you want backed up, you can even schedule when to run the back up in the InfoCenter. I think this is pretty handy as long as you don’t have more than 2GB that needs backed up. If you do have more than 2GB, then I suggest you skip the free version and get the full Carbonite package. It’s not that much considering it may save all the files on your computer someday. How old is your hard drive???
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Hi, Dave Friend here. CEO of Carbonite. Thanks for the mention. We’re very excited about our relationship with AVG. Your readers might also be interested to try our Mac beta. it’s scheduled for production release in Q1. Meanwhile, it’s free. You can try it at beta.carbonite.com/mac.
Regards,
Dave Friend
Well, Dave… Thanks for stopping by and commenting on my blog.
Here ia an excellent review of Carbonite:
http://www.backupreview.info/2008/02/02/carbonite/
Hi Dave this is Ross the owner of computer geek sonline, we would love to use your service with our customers, we filled out your resellers program and no one got back with us!
can you have one of your man men call us? thanks
you can find our into on our site .
thanks much for this cool website! ya i think the 2 gigs on avg is a good thing.. we might start that! thanks again ,,
Hi there I’d thought I’d mention you can unoffically get seven gigs (always increasing) of disk space directly in your explorer’s shell (windows only) using the gmail drive extension
http://www.viksoe.dk/code/gmail.htm
and a google mail account, as a student I find it a evaluable piece of software to pass files between college and back
very rarely will a web filter block gmail so win win