Carbonite Backup & Data Protection Guides
Explore practical information about computer backup, server backup, endpoint protection, recovery, and ransomware resilience.
Explore Carbonite product categories
Educational overviews of Carbonite's main product lines and what each is generally used for.
Carbonite Safe
Automatic cloud backup for home and small-business computers, including plans for servers.
Learn more →Carbonite Endpoint
Centrally managed backup for laptops and desktops across a distributed workforce.
Learn more →Carbonite Server & Migrate
Business-grade backup, disaster recovery, and workload migration for physical and virtual servers.
Learn more →Understand backup and recovery concepts
Backup and recovery is the practice of making copies of your data so it can be restored after loss, corruption, hardware failure, or a security incident. Carbonite's products span personal cloud backup through to server-level disaster recovery.
Read Backup GuidesAutomatic, encrypted offsite copies of your files, running continuously in the background.
Centrally managed backup for laptops and desktops spread across an organization.
How backup fits into ransomware resilience
Concepts commonly discussed alongside cloud and endpoint backup.
Ransomware
Malware that encrypts files and demands payment; offsite backups are a key recovery option.
Encryption
Data is typically encrypted in transit and at rest to help protect it from interception or unauthorized access.
Phishing
Deceptive messages designed to trick people into revealing credentials or installing malware.
Cyber Resilience
The broader ability of an organization to keep operating and recover quickly after an incident.
Popular troubleshooting topics
Quick starting points for common backup and restore issues.
Popular guides
How to Set Up Carbonite Safe
A step-by-step starting point for installing and configuring cloud backup.
View guide →How to Restore Files
Understand the process of recovering individual files from a backup.
View guide →How to Deploy Endpoint Backup Across a Team
General concepts for rolling out centrally managed backup to multiple devices.
View guide →Latest article
How to Create a Reliable Computer Backup Strategy
A practical walkthrough of building a dependable backup routine, from choosing local vs. cloud storage to testing recovery.
Read article →Frequently asked questions
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What is the difference between Carbonite Safe and Carbonite Endpoint?
Carbonite Safe is generally aimed at individual computers and small businesses, while Carbonite Endpoint is designed for centrally managing backup across many laptops and desktops in a larger organization.
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