You can share with your friends, colleagues and other associates just what the sought-after data storage and backup company Carbonite can do for them, and probably get brownie points in return.

In addition to saving you TONS of worry regarding the loss of valued emails, documents, photos and the like, Carbonite offers special web-based protection, which acts like an accessible offsite server.

Carbonite, the data backup client offering data protection with a 15 Petabyte storage capacity, provides internet and computer users an indispensable service, at a bargain rate of only mere pennies a day. They offer a 15-day free trial, to introduce you to their services.

Carbonite uses a combination of encryption techniques, similar to those used by banks, to safeguard your data. Files are encrypted twice before they leave your computer and remain encrypted on our servers, making it virtually impossible for anyone to access your files without your secret password. Users are also given the option to manage their own encryption key.

If your computer crashes or is stolen, you can recover lost files to a new computer by visiting our website. Recovering small amounts of data (a few files here or there) will probably take only seconds or minutes. Restoring all of your data will take longer and depends on how much data you have and the speed of your Internet connection. Most DSL services will allow you to download about 600-800 MB per hour, or roughly 14-18GB per day. For an average user, complete data restoration is likely to take at most a day or two.

The Carbonite client is always looking for new data on your PC, once you’re online. When you add or modify files, Carbonite starts backing them up immediately. It backs up about 2GB per day over broadband. Carbonite’s backup solution works by placing colored dots on your files and folders. Different colors represent different “file states”:  1) If the file has been backed up, 2) will be backed up, or 3) will not be backed up.