A couple of my coworkers have had problems with Mozy. Backups not working or files being missed kind of issues.
I only know of 1 person who uses Carbonite and he loves it. (Well, actually I know quite a few others, but they are all employees of Carbonite and therefore not exactly impartial ;-)
Are you talking Windows? I use Time Machine on a Mac. I'm also thinking about SpiderOak to replace my use of DropBox; you can get 100GB there for $100/year, which isn't a bad price and is encrypted and everything.
I recommend a 2-way backup. Use some sort of on-line/cloud backup for your most critical stuff and get an external drive (1+ terabyte drives are below $100) for everything.
I'd also recommend a decent backup program to handle these things, just about any reputable one should be fine. Personally, I use Acronis True Image.
As for my personal use, I back up everything to the master file server when I remember to and I back that up to the external drive.
I use http://www.backupify.com/ for my online social media. I have a free account since they were doing an offer for those at some point in the past but I'd like to change that to a paid account in future (once I have a job or something) since I have a lot of stuff! It does Gmail, Google Calendar, Flickr, Facebook, Twitter... very handy. It only backs up your content, and they don't have Livejournal, though I've requested it
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Cool- this is a contendermizarchivistJune 28 2011, 17:45:26 UTC
This sounds like a very good notion since otherwise I do not have my gmail backed up, unless I figure out how to download all that to my machine and then back it up with Carbonite or... something. I'd rather maintain it as-is.
Re: Cool- this is a contenderminkroseJune 28 2011, 19:03:14 UTC
Yay!
They've changed their pricing since I signed up (in some January but I can't recall if it was 2010 or 2011). I'm writing this out for anyone else reading who doesn't want to bother doing research (I'm assuming you already poked around, MizA). I've received great customer support from these people and I really like the service.
If you go here: http://www.backupify.com/socialmediabackup You can get 1G of storage free, and it includes Gmail. My main gmail is over 2G, but I guess it depends on how much you store (and how much email you get). I've had my account since early 2004.
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I only know of 1 person who uses Carbonite and he loves it. (Well, actually I know quite a few others, but they are all employees of Carbonite and therefore not exactly impartial ;-)
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I'd also recommend a decent backup program to handle these things, just about any reputable one should be fine. Personally, I use Acronis True Image.
As for my personal use, I back up everything to the master file server when I remember to and I back that up to the external drive.
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They've changed their pricing since I signed up (in some January but I can't recall if it was 2010 or 2011). I'm writing this out for anyone else reading who doesn't want to bother doing research (I'm assuming you already poked around, MizA). I've received great customer support from these people and I really like the service.
If you go here: http://www.backupify.com/socialmediabackup
You can get 1G of storage free, and it includes Gmail. My main gmail is over 2G, but I guess it depends on how much you store (and how much email you get). I've had my account since early 2004.
Otherwise, the google apps (including Gmail) back up is $3/month, 25G per user account. http://www.backupify.com/googleappsbackup
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