I found a product CrashPlan (run on Mac and Windows) and love it. It allows me to backup locally as well off site (i.e. family member or friend.). They also provide a service to host your backup but you pay per MB. Hosting at a family member or friend means I get off site backup and control without a monthly cost. If I have a serious problem and need my off site data I make a phone call to someone I know and trust and they ship me my data.
I have now ~ 300GB of data with this backup solution.
I tried Mozy for about 5 months. The price seems right, until you have a problem. They could not handle the amount of data I had (at the time ~ 200GB) as their software would just churn for 24 hours trying to determine what to even upload to the service.. When I had a hard drive failure it took me almost 4 months or constant back and forth until I got them to send me my data back. They had some "back end issue". Their support just kept stringing along until I think they finally fixed their problem. Their customer service sucked and it can be a huge pain to get your data if you have a major failure. For small amounts of data they might be fine, but for a lot of techies I don't think they can handle the volume of data.
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I found a product CrashPlan (run on Mac and Windows) and love it. It allows me to backup locally as well off site (i.e. family member or friend.). They also provide a service to host your backup but you pay per MB. Hosting at a family member or friend means I get off site backup and control without a monthly cost. If I have a serious problem and need my off site data I make a phone call to someone I know and trust and they ship me my data. I have now ~ 300GB of data with this backup solution. I tried Mozy for about 5 months. The price seems right, until you have a problem. They could not handle the amount of data I had (at the time ~ 200GB) as their software would just churn for 24 hours trying to determine what to even upload to the service.. When I had a hard drive failure it took me almost 4 months or constant back and forth until I got them to send me my data back. They had some "back end issue". Their support just kept stringing along until I think they finally fixed their problem. Their customer service sucked and it can be a huge pain to get your data if you have a major failure. For small amounts of data they might be fine, but for a lot of techies I don't think they can handle the volume of data.