Data Backups?

[niq]

sort of an f/u to emy's safe thread -- what are people doing for off-site backups? We have a huge backup drive but in an emergency you're supposed to have a copy of all your data outside the house. We have big music and photo collections but no movies -- we could back it up over the internet instead of mailing DVDs or drives around.

I've seen ads for Mozy Home and Pogo Plug, but I have no idea if they're any good. Pogo Plug seems too good to be true.

[tripleshot]

I have used Mozy for a couple years with no problems. I pay the full year in advance and get a discount. I think it's about $60/yr. it automatically backs up.

[Redpoppy]

We use Carbonite on my Mac. Crashplan is popular with a lot of the programmers here. I was going to switch to it last year but had some issues. I needed unlimited backups. I had IDrive but hit the cap and didn't want to pay even more. Mozy isn't unlimited and hitting 125 gb isn't difficult with music and pictures.

[uscuba2]

I just had my external drive with all my graphic design stuff on it crash. not to mention pictures. I had 2 externals hook up to my computer. Turns out I was backing everything to up and saving to the external drive that crashed. everything gone . I want to throw up. So needless to say I am looking in to cloud and externals.