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Disclaimer: I am an employee (albeit at a low level) of the company that makes this, but also a happy user.

http://www.connected.com/

They're releasing their home-use product within the next few weeks. It's going to be about $50 in stores, but it works great. You tell it what you want to back up, and it is encrypted and sent to a datacenter. You need to recover it, and you can either go to a website (if enabled), or just recover it via the tray application. It works really well, and is a small price to pay for off-site storage of your data.

It's only on Windows, but at work we use Connected TLM.
It's fantastic.

http://www.connected.com/
http://www.livevault.com/

Disclaimer: I work for Connected and Live Vault's parent company.

http://www.connected.com/ Works perfectly - and it's faster than hell. The restore feature is unreal.

My employer just rolled out Connected DataProtector to everyone (http://www.connected.com/). They are a subsidiary of Iron Mountain, and apparently use something like rsync to backup up my laptop over a 56KB dial-up connection over my lunch hour. Note that I did perform an initial sync at work over a much faster link which still took a while. I'm still doing a bit of fine tuning, like telling it to not backup directories names 'cache'. I don't know what they charge my company, but the base rate seems to be $17.95 per month for 4GB and 1GB of bandwidth, or roughly 1-1/2 cents per meg per day.

I second Connected. I've been using it for a few years now, as have my parents. Connected was also recently aquired by Iron Mountain, a trusted name in offsite records storage.

http://www.connected.com/

My company, a 4000-employee Silicon Valley software company, uses Connected DataProtector to back up our computers. They have both hosted and unhosted versions, our company is hosting it ourselves. It stores a diff of everyone's computer every day (or some other increment) so that people can back up their computers from any point in the past. I'm just getting started using it, but it looks pretty cool and it was incredibly easy to configure (as a user).

http://onlinebackup.connected.com/plans.asp

Windows only, but the price isn't horrible.

Disclaimer: I work for Iron Mountain.

http://www.livevault.com/solutions/smb/multiplatfo rm.aspx

LiveVault will run on Solaris for Sparc 7,8,9, and several version of RH for x86. I have no idea how much it costs; I don't work for that part of the company.

DISCLAIMER: I work for Iron Mountain.

I'll shut up now. Looks as though LiveVault and Connected may be the same company.

industry's first disk-based online data backup and guaranteed recovery solution for small and medium businesses...

One, this seems awfully expensive, and two, we've used Connected which has provided us with a reliable online data backup facility for a couple of years now. (And it's a fraction of the price). What's the difference?

Methinks they should be spending less money on John Cleese, viral marketing and dodgy marketing tactics and a bit more time providing a proper service at a decent price.

OTOH, the situation is exacerbated by the fact that I am a software programmer on a laptop. In other words, all day we need all the performance we can get, and then at night the laptops aren't on/connected. I imagine if you are backing up desktop machines, you can just set it to run at 3am every night and forget it, and never see the client software.

I really, really like Conected Corp's TLM or Total Loss Management product. We used it in conjunction with Connected DataProtector as an internal desktop backup solution for around 35K desktops. They have small and mid sized solutions quoted on their site but nothing in the range the requester mentioned. Give em a ring and they will probably give you a quote.

You're not supposed to do it, but I make a bunch of zip files out of my Linux data that I move over to my Windows machine every night.
Gee, why not? Looking at the appropriate part of their FAQ, I don't see a restriction against it.

I sleep in blissful peace because of this product: Connected Online Backup. All the files that change get backed up over the Internet every night on my system. It also does partial-file backups, so it figures out which part of a particular file actually changes, which works well for huge files like e-mail folders (my e-mail file is like 200 megabytes, and it typically moves about 20K every day). Of course, it automatically compresses the data when sending it.

Security? It encrypts your data BEFORE it leaves your PC, and the security password remains on your computer. They are careful to tell you that if you lose your password, they can't recover your data.

I've only had to restore a file a couple of times, but the few times I've done it seemed to work well. They also have a CD ordering option.

The last time I posted about these guys some people said that restoring a lot of data tended to be kind of slow, but I don't have experian with that.

Oh, the price? $14.95 a month, and I have several gigabytes backed up. Can't beat the price, can't beat the peace of mind. This service rocks.

In our office we use TLM for backing up all the individual PCs. It is non intrusive, runs at background at admin defined intervals. If you turn the machine off, it'll automatically run next time you turn it on (if the schedule is missed). It takes incremental backup and you can configure drive/directories not to backup. It proved useful to us.

• All the data is encrypted locally before upload (but this is transparent to the user).
• It very could at minimizing that data upload diffs + intellegent dup identification, but again this is all invisible to the user.
• You can restore a file or everything to a specific date (with in the last 90 days I think) or get the newest version.
• It is $15/month per computer.

I am not affiliated with them, I am just a satified customer.

I mentioned this in another post, but this is what you want: Connected Online Backup. My Mother In Law is an office manager, and I set up her system with it. $14.95/month, and it works perfectly. Even if their on a modem, it's not bad. Only a few minutes every night. It's awesome.

(Now, if only the price of DVD writers (and blanks) would come down so that I can afford to back up all those gigabytes of cheap hard drive I have.)

Speaking of backups, I found a great service the other day that's finally allowed me to back up lots of storage. Connected.com allows unlimited online storage ... for only $15/month. I think it's only Windows only, but I upload a tar/gz from my Linux box periodically. It does specifically say that it's not intended to be abused by huge amounts of multimedia content. :)

It also does a good job of comparing the contents of files, so if you have a database or a mail file, it will only upload the blocks of the file that actually change.

Highly recommended. My mother-in-law is even using it over a dial-up modem, and it works great.

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