I’ve recently signed up for a couple years of crashplan.com‘s central backup service. Currently 50 GB of data stored there and it’s got a nice front-end application to use. One of my favorite parts is that the client works equally well on Linux as on the usual Mac and Windows varieties. A fun kicker is the ability to run a “headless” client for Crashplan. Meaning, you can have it all running on a Linux server, yet open the user interface on your desktop to configure the backup. This is nice for people that have large backups already being automated from desktops to a file server.
At the time of my signup, they were the cheapest, unlimited backup provider I could find. Other unlimited sources like Mozy or Carbonite charged a bit more per month. I would have to say that Mozy and Carbonite might win a user interface or usability contest. Crashplan really could use a designer’s touch on many aspects of their application and process.
Lastly, I must say, it costs a mite to get started and takes a couple weeks of uploading over consumer internet connection speeds, but it’s nice to have all data I’d rather not lose stashed away remotely.
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