Online Backups

I wrote up about Diino's online storage service a while ago. However, having had a look around the interweb once again, I've found a few more providers and this excellent article in the New York Times pointed me in the direction of Mozy and Carbonite. I'm trialing both - Mozy give you 2GB storage for free, whilst Carbonite give you a 15 day free trial. Both are about the same price at about USD50 per year (and at the current exchange rate, that's well cheap).

Both are Windows specific, but there is plans for Mac/Linux variation for Carbonite. Not sure about Mozy on that front. Carbonite is incredibly easy to use: everything is automated, so it's ideal for the non-geeks out there. Mozy is more configurable, and my preferred choice at the moment. And seeing as I am using the free version, I've used the referral link the supply and if 4 people sign up using that I get another 1GB of free storage space. I just need 20 or so referrals and I can back up everything I want to for free!

Now to persuade my folks and siblings to use some form of backup so I don't have to explain to them they've lost all their photos / letters / emails when one of the seven dwarfs* decides to take a hammer to their PC...