I am presently using CrashPlan which is very cost effective and efficient. The initial backup can take a painfully long time due to the size involved if you have a lot of photos, but since it just runs in the background even if it takes a month no big deal. I presently have 250GB backed up with CrashPlan. If you have more than one computer, or a friend with a computer you can actually use their software for free to back up to the other machine automatically over the network. I would *strongly* advise you move away from CD/DVD to at least external hard drives that you disconnect after back-up. CD/DVD is a horrible media, depending on the disk, the drive, and the software a given burn might last 10 years or less than 10 weeks. If the drive and software don't burn the disk with the proper exposure pattern the media will fade rather quickly (less than a year) even though an immediate verification of the data just after burning will look fine. Sadly this is not an uncommon problem and lots of people go back to their CD/DVD archives only to discover there is no longer anything there :(. Ken
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Re: Anyone backing up their files online?
2011-02-10 by kwalsh74
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