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Backing up / storing data online has become a common practice these days. Internet technology has come a long way ... now you can easily backup your important files to a remote location in the comfort of your office or home.

There are many reviews of online backup companies out there, here is a good site with detailed reviews:
http://www.backupreview.info/category/our-reviews/

This site also has a recommended top 75 online backup companies listed monthly at the left column.

This just goes to show how popular online backup is becoming,however the market is still very much in its infancy with only a tiny fraction of online users using these methods to backup their data,we operate in the business space and have found a far greater takeup in these segments as opposed to the home user markets.

For a free Microsoft service (all it takes is a Windows Live ID from Hotmail, Messenger or Xbox Live) you could try Windows Live SkyDrive. 25GB of free storage.

http: //skydrive.live.com/

And Bob, I know it was probably a typo but I think you meant to say 999,000 instead of "...990,000 who ARE satisfied customers." :-)

EDITOR'S NOTE: Thanks. I should never do math without a calculator. :-)

After a tape backup manufacturer stopped providing driver updates (without notice) after a MS XT upgrade, leaving us with a useless backup system, I switched to Mozy. Unfortunately, after upgrading our server, and after waiting for 1.5+ days for the restore to download, and then several tries at downloading and restoring--the two larger segments from Mozy were defective and unrecoverable. Many years of data files were gone. I say, don't trust any system alone--use at least three means of backing up, and keep at least one physical copy somewhere safe, off site.
My preferred backup is now the Clickfree automatic backup onto a portable HD.

I think I'll just wait for Google's upcoming GDrive, which supposedly will be unlimited and FREE.

Even if it costs, I'd opt for it because I know Google isn't going to go away, plus the service will be tied to my Gmail and other Google accounts.

Well, one slight remark: iDrive DOES have larger than 50Gig accounts. I am currently on a 150 Gig account, business account even goed all the way to 500Gig (pricing: US$ 500).

For what it is worth (it is a lot to me :-) ... iDrive is reasonably priced for a great service. Don't forget the 10-version histories of each file after adaption - iDrive served me well when restoring an old version of a -by then- revised document.

I use PARAGON and eventually isle go to Acronis true image.

Hi,
So far I've been thrilled with Carbonite. I found out about it from kimkomando.com and got a couple of months free when I put in some code. It did several days to get my initial backup done last year. But when you're backing up so many gb of data (especially all the thousands of family photos and videos) just how much faster could anyone expect it go?!

Also, I've never had to use it to restore anything so I can't say how easy it would be.

I hadn't heard that the company lost the backups of 7500 customers. That IS kind of disturbing.

I am trying to catch up with the present time and I'm still in the past, but I must say thanks to you and your site i'm moving a bit faster, thank you.
I'm just learning about Carbonite from a tv commercial and now you, thanks.
I learned from one of the other people who have posted comments that google was coming out with the g-drive, must find more info.