Carbonite Backs Up Your Files Online

[dhilipkumar]

Carbonite Backs Up Your Files Online

The logic behind Carbonite's automatic selection of data for backup could perhaps be improved. Unlike most programs that automatically include the Desktop and My Documents (by far the most popular locations for user generated data files), Carbonite only optionally includes these folders.

but one that adds a lot of data that's useless under any restore scenario that includes re-installing applications.

You can disable the behavior, however, I wish Carbonite had taken it a step further and put dots (perhaps the company logo's purple) on folders available for restore.