Some of us in the family have been looking for an online backup service for a few months. The main items we looked at were automation and cost. Over the course of the past months we have looked at iDrive, ADrive, Mozy, Jungle Disk, Carbonite, and Amazon Simple Storage Service. All of them worked I liked the fact that ADrive gives 50Gb of space free, the free version does not include automated backups. "I am am using ADrive for some online storage" Mozy was coming out ahead for a complete solution when I ran across an article on macworld.com. Glenn Fleishman had write an article about seven Web based backup services. From this article I learned about CrashPlan so went to check it out. We were impressed with the things CrashPlan can do. Besides backing up to their servers you can backup to another computer you own on site or off site and/or backup to friends computer off site. With a 3 year plan monthly cost is as low as $3.50 and a family plan which allows backup of all computers you own is $5.00 a month. Was also glad to see their desktop interface works with Linux and Open Solaris as well as Mac OS X and Windows. Looks like we have decided to go with CrashPlan as our backup service.
Another service that I use is Dropbox, while it does not make a practical complete system back solution is great for storing items you want to be able to access from another computer or even your iPhone. The basic version is free with 2GB of storage.
Read Glenn's article here: Online backup services
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