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By George Murphy on Aug. 26, 2008

I have used JD. It is pretty slick. The great part is that it comes with Windows, Linux and Mac clients, and gives you webdav access. Haven't used Mozy, but I heard that is a good service too. No idea about box.net.

Jungle Disk keeps a mirror of your data and only syncs changes up in the cloud, thereby saving you bandwidth cost at S3. It hasn't crapped out on me yet, but I don't know how it will behave if it does!

By Chris Epler on Dec. 17, 2008

I currently use JungleDisk but am exploring other options. Along the way I tried Mozy and Carbonite. Both of which I've heard horror stores about restoring data. Mozy crams everything into temp files prior to sending them off, didn't like that. Carbonite has an exception list of things it won't backup without you going and manually tagging them to be backed up and doesn't support removable drives.

I am currently evaluating CrashPlan but the one thing that concerns me is the reliance on CrashPlan to be around to make the software useful but I still suggest checking it out. It does backups to their server at $0.10/Gig ($5 minimum) OR it'll do peer-to-peer style backups and there is no license requirement to be a backup DESTINATION (Storage).