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Since I've not seen it mentioned yet: I use CrashPlan to back up all of my personal systems, both to a home server and to an remote peer. It's a bit RAM heavy, but other than that nicely stays out of the way & does it's job. The killer feature is trivial peer-to-peer connectivity, making off site backups easy. I'm not affiliated with the company -- just a happy customer.
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On the Mac, Dropbox doesn't do so well with restoring metadata: http://www.haystacksoftware.com/blog/2010/06/the-importance-... http://www.haystacksoftware.com/arq/dropbox-backup-bouncer-t... (Disclaimer -- I write backup software: http://haystacksoftware.com/arq/ )
Arq looks nice. I wasn't able to digest the (S3) pricing table, but all in all it leaves a favourable impression of a well-designed and well thought out program.
S3 pricing is confusing. It boils down to this: $.10/GB per month for storage, plus an insignificant amount of transaction costs;
After Nov 1, data transfer to S3 will be $.10 per GB;
Restores (data transfer from S3) are $.10 per GB (1 GB data transfer from S3 free per month).