I prefer my Apple Time Capsule. Wireless backup, runs in the background whenever my MBP is up, fixed up front cost, and all my data stays on my own network.
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#12astrails-safe (http://blog.astrails.com/2009/4/6/simple-backups-can-be-simp...):
runs from cron, archives files and mysql databases (and more), encrypts with gpg and uploads to amazon s3
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#13Everything I care about goes in to an offsite SVN repository.
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#14For just about everything non-media, I use mercurial to a colosite. Works fantastic. Big media files (movies, iTunes Library, etc.) are backed up locally to a big data server.
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#15I use dropbox for everything. I can't imagine a better solution.
I also use dropbox. Its fantastic for sharing. But to me its not a real backup solution. Everything doesnt live in the same folders or drives, seems like a lot of work to turn dropbox into a half baked backup solution.
You can start by moving things into Dropbox and symlinking them back to their original locations. Can't help you if you're on Windows.
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#16SugarSync, though I also use it to keep files in sync between PCs.
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#17Time Machine on mac, Back in Time on Linux. Both are great. I backup to a network drive. If you are using a mac, and you want to use time machine, don't waste your money on their time capsule product. To find out how to use time machine with a non-apple backup resource, look into sparse bundles.
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#18I make bootable clones of my laptop hdd with SuperDuper. I use 2 drives and an external SCSI drive enclosure for this. This way, I have a weekly copy and a daily copy. And when my laptop hdd fails I can switch over to a good copy with no downtime.
I also use Dropbox for a certain subset of my documents, so that adds another layer of backups w/ partial rollback as well.
Online backups are good, but an external SCSI enclosure costs at most $40 + the cost of an internal drive, which is cheaper, and allows faster recovery.
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#19Jungledisk for my laptop, Duplicity -> Amazon S3 for servers.
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#20SugarSync, though I also use it to keep files in sync between PCs.
I've been very happy with SugarSync. I also back up my most important files to a couple of USB thumb drives.