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I'm surprised nobody has mentioned tarsnap yet. Simple to use (I simply run a cron job to backup my home directory once a day). Backups are incremental (you don't pay for a full backup every day). Rock solid security (powered by cperciva). Reasonable pricing. Granted, the UI is a little rough around the edges when compared to e.g. crashplan but I live in a terminal already anyways.

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Tarsnap is fantastic, and I'd love to be able to use it more, but it's 25x more expensive than Glacier (not counting the whacky retrieval costs) and 10x more expensive than S3, so it's not really practical for bulk backups unless your data is particularly valuable.

I respect Colin and what he does, but tarsnap is too expensive for general purpose/consumer back ups, I mean photos and videos.

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