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Originally Posted by bryce

I'm a computer simpleton, so this may not be the same as what you guys are referring to, but I use mozy.com - so it's online storage, not on site. There's a free version, but with limited storage space. I started with that but outgrew it and now use the unlimited storage for $5/month. But it's easy (although, again, maybe not what you are after), but I just click "My Documents" and set it to automatically back up every so often (you can pick the criteria.) I've retrieved files a few times, and it's easy.

Those are good for limited amounts of data, but having had to do a restore of our work server from that (13gb), for large quantities of data, even on a FioS line, they take a long long time. That's the key downside I see. And if you don't leave your computer on and connected to the internet all the time anyways you'll have to do that in order to have your backing-up ever finish in the first place, let alone a restore.

but they're a useful piece of the puzzle. we still do that, along with backing up to a USB drive.