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I need to recommend a service or two for a modest (< 1GB) online backup for a friend of mine.

Does anyone have any experience with these outfits (such as xdrive.com, ibackup.com, etc.)? Are there any that you'd wholeheartedly recommend?

It seems to me that there was a decent review of online backup systems in PC Magazine within the last year.

I've never really considered online backup because of the size of my backups and my connection speeds; so I have no personal experience.

would it be possible to attach things in email somehow and use a gmail account? it is possible to store tons of info through it.

Chuck(G) wrote:I need to recommend a service or two for a modest (< 1GB) online backup for a friend of mine.

Does anyone have any experience with these outfits (such as xdrive.com, ibackup.com, etc.)? Are there any that you'd wholeheartedly recommend?

Unless it is for person to person file transfer, I'd just buy a 1GB flash drive and use a sync utility. <$50

brattom wrote:Unless it is for person to person file transfer, I'd just buy a 1GB flash drive and use a sync utility. <$50

You don't know this person. He has trouble hanging on to a laptop and is certain to lose a flash drive.

I note that Inbox.com offers a free backup service in connection with their email.

How about this: http://www.xdrive.com/

5Gb storage for free.

I put an external drive on my machine and use Norton Save and Restore to do a backup on to it every night at about 2 am. Works fine as long as there are no fires - then I have a CD backup every so often.

brianf wrote:I put an external drive on my machine and use Norton Save and Restore to do a backup on to it every night at about 2 am. Works fine as long as there are no fires - then I have a CD backup every so often.

... or electro-magnetic pulse weapons discharged.