[Avodah] Carbonite

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I signed up for something called Carbonite, which uploads everything on  
your computer to the Cloud where it might be possible to retrieve it all if 
your  computer dies or is stolen.  The thing is, either I have way too much on 
my  computer or my computer is way too old and slow, but anyway, Carbonite 
started  uploading on Sunday afternoon and now, Thursday night, it is STILL  
uploading.  It continuously shows what progress it has made, and it is  
showing me that it has uploaded 43% of my computer.  I am no math whiz but  I 
can figure out that if it took from Sunday to Thursday to upload 43% it is 
not  going to reach 100% before Shabbos.  
 
I asked the Carbonite tech person what happens if you turn off your  
computer in the middle, and he said Carbonite will just continue where it left  
off when you turn your computer back on.  Interestingly we had a test case  on 
Monday when my neighborhood lost power for six hours.  When the power  came 
back on, Carbonite did NOT resume where it had left off.  Instead, I  had 
to call Carbonite and ended up being on the phone for an hour while they  
told me to do this and that and then they did whatever and finally got 
Carbonite  to resume its weary work.  So here is my question for the learned chevra  
here on Avodah:
 
Can I just leave my computer on all Shabbos, in another room with the door  
closed where I won't see it and it won't fashtair my Shabbos, and let 
Carbonite  keep running and running?  (It looks like it will take a whole nother 
week  to finish.)  Or should I sell my laptop to a goy and buy it back after 
 Shabbos?  (That was a joke, for those of you in Rio Linda.)  Should I  
turn it off and resign myself to talking to tech support again for another hour 
 to get it working again after Shabbos?  Oy, siz shver tsu zein a  Yid! 
 
Is leaving a laptop on all Shabbos with Carbonite uploading more like [A]  
leaving your lights, fridge and air conditioning on all Shabbos  or [B] 
leaving a TV or radio on -- dubiously muttar, definitely not  Shabbosdik or [C] 
making your eved Canaani work for you all day Shabbos --  a no-no or [D] 
giving your clothes to the Greek dressmaker to fix and telling  her you need 
them some time next week, and if she for her own  convenience decides to do 
the work on Shabbos, that's copacetic?  
 
 
--Toby Katz
t613k at aol.com
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