Anyway I can trick Carbonite into backing up an external hard drive?
- by Brian
I use carbonite to back up my PC (Windows XP). We were running low on disk space on our home PC (down to 15 gig) so I went out and purchased an external hard drive. However, Carbonite will not back it up. I just want the external drive to be extra disk space. From their FAQ:
The current version of Carbonite backs
up only the files that reside on
permanent hard drives on your
computer.
It will not back up network drives,
external drives, and NAS (network
accessed storage) drives. If there are
files on a remote drive that you wish
to include in your Carbonite backup,
you should copy the files to a folder
on your local hard drive. If the files
are on a shared network drive, you
could install Carbonite on the
computer on which the network shared
drive physically exists, and back the
files up directly from that computer.
Check back soon for a Carbonite
service plan that will allow you to
back up your external drives.
