Carl
With the cost of Carbonite you could have bought 1 if not 2 500GB/1TB drives for backup and had a rotating pair of drives keeping one offsite at a friends house. As folks pointed out earlier the online solution is fine for some but not quite what photographers with large files need.
My solution just changed. I backup to external drives about once a month. Every night I backup my four internal drives to a Drobo which has 4x1.5TB drives. I on a Mac and using SuperDuper. I had tried TimeMachine but it kept running out of room. I am backing up a total of 4.2TB of data (give or take). SuperDuper, after the initial backup which on restore is bootable, only backs up the changes. I schedule them to run between midnight and 6 am.
The Drobo is partitioned into 4 drives, one for each of my internal drives.
Drives are cheap. Hope you never need to restore for anything, but wonder how long it would take to get it back from Carbonite.
Don't forget that unless you have a backup of your primary boot drive that you will need to reinstall everything from scratch. Good idea regardless of platform to do a drive image monthly for just that reason.
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