budmang

We don't store your operating system or apps primarily because without taking a complete disk image, you wouldn't be able to reinstall them typically anyway. Thus, it would take more of your bandwidth to get the files backed up, but you wouldn't be able to use them. (And you may get a false sense of security about them.) In general, our goal is to backup your data - the things you can't get back.

I'd like to make one small plug for http://www.Backblaze.com

We're an online backup service that provides completely unlimited storage, external drive backup, versioning, etc. for $5/month. (And we're the Presenting Sponsor of World Backup Day.) We also open sourced our 135 TB Storage Pod for anyone to use.

If you're not backing up - please start! (Using us or something.) If you are, please help your family and friends who almost certainly are not.

Welcome on board!

Backblaze has no limitations on the amount of data you can backup or the speed at which you can backup. You can read a bit more about this on our blog: http://blog.backblaze.com/2011/02/03/backblaze-is-committed-...

Gleb Budman CEO, Backblaze

FYI - we provide completely unlimited storage, unthrottled bandwidth, backup all data by default, backup external drives, and can ship you a restore drive as well.

$5/month or $50/year. We can do this based on our unique cloud storage which Hacker News had a long thread about: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=797995

We are also offering a 10% off discount for current Mozy switchers: "byemozy"

Gleb Budman CEO, Backblaze

Thanks for the discussion here. I wanted to just clarify - we take data integrity very seriously and actually checksum EVERYTHING. We assume that data might get mangled over the Internet, in memory, on disk, etc. Thus, we checksum each file on your computer and ensure that it is returned to you upon restore identically.

Our system also does self-healing: monitoring every file in the datacenter and if a checksum ever doesn't match (due to a cosmic ray flipping a bit on a harddrive), it automatically contacts your computer to request that bit of a file be backed up again.

Gleb Budman CEO, Backblaze

Mozy is also a good solution. It's actually the same price ($5/mo), but most users say it is harder to use (since it doesn't just backup all data) and that it slows down your computer when it kicks off it's daily backup.

I'm the CEO of Backblaze and certainly understand your concern about hosting your data with a startup. We do encrypt your data using AES encryption, your data is stored in the 365 Main datacenters (where Cnet, Sun, etc.) are located, and you can put your own private key on the data. This is also not our first company - Excite@Home, SonicWALL, and Thomson Financial purchased the last ones...and they obviously cared a lot about security of the data. Hope we can help you backup your code and computers.