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

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

LiveVault, an online backup provider, has a whitepaper on their Information Resources page. (registration req'd)

LiveVault was a very expensive solution when I looked into last year - maybe not a good solution for a business that has the ever-popular IT Manager/Lifeguard position. But, their white papers might provide some ideas to help with evaluations.

We use Online back up here through a company called Live Vault http://www.livevault.com/ and the service is great. We back up about 200 Gigs of data and as the service only takes the delta changes of the hard drives it doen't have to back up the full 200Gb except for the first connect. The bandwidth usage is noticable on a monthly level, but paying an extra $100.00 a month in bandwith fees is no problem. I love the service and it has been very useful.

Before the flames start, I want to throw in my two cents.

I have recently rebuild a few of our servers and noticed the high price of tape drives. It seems like you have to spend a grand to get anything decent. So, I've started to look around at what's available online. I've found livevault.com and evault.com. Both are offering between 5 and 10 gigabytes for between $100 and $200 a month. So, if I want 100 Gig, the only viable option is to spend ~$2,000 (hardware and software), pare down what I am backing up and send it off-site for ~$2,000 a year. Or, homegrow some other solution. What homegrown solutions have people come up with that can backup a heterogeneous environment?

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.

According to LiveVault's website and some Google research, LiveVault is in no way owned by CA (Computer Associates).
No offense, but where did you get that idea?

Interestingly, Iron Mountain has invested in LiveVault according to the LiveVault website.

I like the idea of online backup. However, this company's website appears to be powered entirely by clip-art models that attempts to lend an air of professionalisim but instead makes them seem like a bunch of assholes who have nothing better to do than watch internet porn, play with pens and read magazines while on the phone. And then they blow at least $3.50 on John Cheese (yes, that was his name before he changed it), marking a new low point in his career.

So - who are this company's competitors (ie: who else provides online backup to corporate and home users) - and who would you recommend?

Live vault is partially funded by Iron Mountain