Online BackUp

Hmmmm is it necessary?

I have got to that point in my life where I have a lot of photos, a lot of music and some doc's which if lost I would be very f'd off to loose it.

So how might it be lost? Well I dont trust computers to survive forever so in that regard I dont trust the HD's inside them or some rogue app to by mistake delete a few things.

I have 3 external drives of varying sizes which I have collected on my travels.
1 x WD 500gig drive which contains the music and is permanantly connected via Firewire to the main family PC
1 x Small 80gb portable drive. Like this. It came from an HP Universe show and all exhibitors got one, came with a little leather wallet to hold it. Very cool for pro works stuff the transfer or store on.

1 x 320gb which is blank and I am playing with backing up some stuff to it.

But what about storing it in the cloud? Why because I dont trust the HD media, and if the house was to burn down and we all survived, at some point I will want to get my stuff back. So after listening to some of CNET's The Real Deal podcasts I heard about Jungle Disk. Which looks like a very resiliant solution but just a tad expensive for what I was thinking. Although the lure of the data being stored on Amazon's S2 server stuff sounds great.

Have since found SquirrelSave as recommended by a friend, which is UK based and is cheap.
Also looking at Mozy to see how good the free account is.

One idea which I think is brilliant for the consumer and heard this suggestion on CNET BOL is that you get a cloud storage account with every HD you buy. Bloody brilliant. Why wouldn't you. I would pay more for the HD to have an equiv cloud backup. Bring it on Manufacturers.

Over and out