They send an appliance over to you that manages all of your scheduling and if you do have a loss on your side you have the option of pulling the data off of the local equipment. Its a little less stressful than handling a 4 day online download. There is an added level of security too because the equipment they send talks to the remote backup provider through mac address security.

Please advise me how

Please also advise how to use Carbonite to backup and restore EFS files.

Also how to use Carbonite on a machine that does not use IE as its default browser etc.

You will find, as most Carbonite users have already, that things start to go badly wrong – as Carbonite incorrectly make assumptions about the configuration of the PC.

I had to reconfigure my PC just so Carbonite would work at all.

Browser applications are not as robust as compiled windows applications – they are designed for multi-client wan/internet applications (at which they are great) creating a single-client (IE) local-machine web application like Carbonite has is a very foolish decision – the end result is a very fragile UI plagued with security problems, performance issues and bugs = Kludge.

I’ve never had Javascript errors on Carbonite on 3 computers I’ve used it on.

The whole “not everybody uses IE” debate is so 1998. Whether you like it or not, it’s become a part of Windows, and there are many projects that rely on its presence for providing simple functionality.

It’s functioned fine for me on Internet Explorer versions 6 to 9, as no doubt intended – there’s no “forcing” users to do anything, and it never forgot my preferences.

And again, I don’t know what you mean by “low quality cludge approach”, because the heart of Carbonite is clearly efficient. It is more optimized than Mozy (by a long shot) and more optimized than Backblaze. It is as close to distraction-free backup as I’ve ever found.

An “experienced” developer should be able to see past the GUI part of the product and understand where the real work was being done.