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I'm looking to upload some personal items ( family photos, movies ) to a secure remote location and then forget about them ( unless disaster strikes and my hard drives / DVDs are all broken ).

Please suggest a good provider for this.

I could self-host this, but I get an extra layer of reliability by outsourcing.

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I personally have been using Jungle Disk for quite some time now. It seems to be the most practical offsite backup for personal use. Before Jungle Disk I used to use Mozy, which is also very good for this purpose.

Neither of these are free... but for a "secure remote location" I assume you are willing to pay a little. Right?

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Right, I'm willing to pay. – Robert Munteanu Jul 15 '09 at 11:35
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Syncplicity is the one I use, which has a nice set and forget user experience. You can get a 2GB account for free, to try it out.

EDIT: Syncplicity is also great for use across multiple machines, to keep your files in sync everywhere.

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I'd recommend looking at Dropbox. Basically, you tell it to monitor a directory, and it always keeps that up to date online. Even better, it keeps revisions of the files online as you make changes. All automatic!

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Another option is Backblaze.

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+1 I haven't used it yet, but Backblaze looks great and $5 to back up my terabytes of information is spectacular. – mrduclaw Dec 20 '09 at 12:41
I was using Mozy, which works pretty good, but I find it really slows down the computer. Backblaze also keeps a deleted file after it's been deleted, which although not a big deal to me, it is nice. – Darryl Hein Dec 21 '09 at 7:56
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I use Mozy and Microsoft Live Sync.

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I have been using rsync.net for this without any problems.

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Carbonite is an upload-backup service endorsed by popular tech-personality Leo Laporte.

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If you buy one new Lacie External Hard Disk, you can benefit of the One Year Online Backup for free, more information:

http://www.lacie.com/es/more/?id=10063

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