Sounds intriguing, although pricey.

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/27/te...ogue.html?8dpc

The second page of the article has the interesting stuff.

I'm happy so far with Mozy Online Backup (which has saved me hugely once, and in small ways several times. Their email support is also first-rate).

I don't have the need for syncing various computers to be mirrors but for those who do, this sounds intriguing -- but will be interested in those smarter than I to comment

I LOVE it. I'm not a fan of free programs like Mozy (I know it's not free for everyone, but most people I know with it are on some kind of freebie referral plan). The Sugarsync app has been rock solid and mobile access to my files is brilliant.

I posted a review of the beta back in February: http://boardingarea.com/blogs/travel...iew-sugarsync/

FWIW; Pogue says that files on a Blackberry or Windows Mobile device are also backed up, which is not true AFAIK, access to backed up files is only available through the web browser on your PDA. The mobile client can only backup photos.

Interesting. I may think about whether this makes possible some things that would be nice.

While I started with the free Mozy program (bumped up capacity via harassing my friends ), I ended up buying the unlimited version and it has been solid.

This looks great. And I appreciated your review Scott.

I'm trying it now. It says about 3 days to go to get the initial upload done.

Thanks,
-David

I've been using carbonite for well over a year now. Technically I've been happy with it. Haven't had to do a full recovery yet - but my niggles have been sorted: e.g. it used to hard to get it to always backup certain types of heavy files. Best feature: it keeps old versions of files for a period of time that you can recover.

I'm curious as to why you don't like Mozy? I'm a satisfied user of both the free and pay versions.

(Ironically, I probably would have harassed my friends to sign up more if Mozy didn't make me look like I was mooching for referral credit.)

Instead of Sugarsync, I use the free program Foldershare which handles the sync function. I don't need the offsite storage since I have that from Mozy.

That is the main reason I dislike them. I've got at least 20 friends who begged me to signup.

Now that they are owned by EMC I don't doubt that they are reliable.

Carbonite's largest weaknesses: the user never knowing if all of their data files are really being backed up, too many file types excluded from backup, and a glaring inability to select an entire directory and all sub-directories and all files for backup.

And serious problems with some data files erroneously being marked as temp files and excluded from backup without warning to the user. (This affects a number of third-party PDFs, for example. They can't even give out a list of what filetypes are affected because they're not even sure.)

I wanna love the Carbonite app for its simplicity, but I absolutely loathe its management for knowlingly putting its subscribers at such risk. I had to call it quits with them after receiving clear, stone-walling replies to my concerns.

I completely agree - but they've been slowly improving. So far they seem to be less aggressive in excluding files for backup.

While it does not have web-based storage, it keeps my 3 computers synched nicely. I don't really want my files store on the web anyway, so it works best for me.

I've been using Sugarsync for a few months and wouldn't be able to do without it anymore!

It's a great app!