Since you are storing so little data, I would suggest you open an account with Amazon S3 and let them worry about the storage (combine that with Jungle Drive and Novell netdrive to create a pseudo network drive on your machine - both software are a snap to setup). Then you grab your favorite winrar, winzip, archive program, and you RTFM (many people find software "hard to use" but they don't even bother learning how to use them). You schedule an archive update every week and you're done. Works great for me. I backup all my important files (pr0n and MP3 don't count) to an S3 container and I am happy as can be.
Agreed. Terminal service is the solution of choice of corporations (RDP and Citrix), not SSH and VNC hacks. Those so-called web 2.0 apps may be convenient if you are away from the office and you have to write a small doc in a hurry but I can think of a company that would make them their main applications. Companies like MS Office because it has a predictible cost (MS Office is not as expensive for companies as you'd think if you know which licenses to use). IT dept and users alike like Office because it has a well define set of features, it does not come up with "the new and improve interface of the week", the "server overload of the day" or the "sorry we are out of business of the the month". If M$ were to go out of business, I can still use MS Office on my PC. If gOffice goes out of business and "john doe user " must write a contract, it sucks to be him. If suddenly Google decides to charge $100.00/month to use Writely, what do you do when you have 200 people using it in your company?! Fat clients and desktop apps are not going anywhere and so far, web apps are just a convenient ad-hoc addition, not a primary tool. Finally, any IT manager working for a public company can problably understand why I wouldn't be crazy to tell the company auditors that company documents are stored on third party server with no or little control over their privacy. The list of reason why companies (that is where the money is for software vendors!) won't use web-based apps goes on and on and on and on...
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Since you are storing so little data, I would suggest you open an account with Amazon S3 and let them worry about the storage (combine that with Jungle Drive and Novell netdrive to create a pseudo network drive on your machine - both software are a snap to setup). Then you grab your favorite winrar, winzip, archive program, and you RTFM (many people find software "hard to use" but they don't even bother learning how to use them). You schedule an archive update every week and you're done. Works great for me. I backup all my important files (pr0n and MP3 don't count) to an S3 container and I am happy as can be.
Agreed. Terminal service is the solution of choice of corporations (RDP and Citrix), not SSH and VNC hacks. Those so-called web 2.0 apps may be convenient if you are away from the office and you have to write a small doc in a hurry but I can think of a company that would make them their main applications. Companies like MS Office because it has a predictible cost (MS Office is not as expensive for companies as you'd think if you know which licenses to use). IT dept and users alike like Office because it has a well define set of features, it does not come up with "the new and improve interface of the week", the "server overload of the day" or the "sorry we are out of business of the the month". If M$ were to go out of business, I can still use MS Office on my PC. If gOffice goes out of business and "john doe user " must write a contract, it sucks to be him. If suddenly Google decides to charge $100.00/month to use Writely, what do you do when you have 200 people using it in your company?! Fat clients and desktop apps are not going anywhere and so far, web apps are just a convenient ad-hoc addition, not a primary tool. Finally, any IT manager working for a public company can problably understand why I wouldn't be crazy to tell the company auditors that company documents are stored on third party server with no or little control over their privacy.
The list of reason why companies (that is where the money is for software vendors!) won't use web-based apps goes on and on and on and on...