I’ve been off bigpond as an ISP for 10 months or more now, I’m constantly surprised how long it is taking me to drop the mindset that I need to worry about upload volumes. 6 months or so ago I had the epiphany that I could actually be a seeder on some of the open source projects I subscribe to, because upload isn’t a constraint on me anymore. This week I’ve had the epiphany all over again - I can backup to the cloud!

Mozy.com is where you want to go. $103 for two years of unlimited backups! I’ve configured 287gb of backups. This is going to take an age to get baselined, but once done it will be small to maintain complete offsite back up of all my data, photos, music collection and home movies. The back up process itself a breeze, I’ve got it setup to monitor the file system and perform backup cycles as and when needed. You can then restore through the app, through an explorer shell extension, through a web based app wherever you are or get them to ship you DVDs.