Steven, this is probably not directly relevant to you, since you're
located in Australia, but I just noticed that CrashPlan has an
approach to dealing with the massive upload problem similar to
Amazon's Import/Export service.  They send you a 1TB drive.  You load
it up with your data and send it back and they use it to populate your
back up. (see "Seed Initial Backup" on 
http://b2.crashplan.com/consumer/store.vtl
)  That part of the process isn't cheap, but at least the ongoing
costs are quite low.

--Matt

On Feb 13, 9:49 pm, Steven Herod <[email protected]> wrote:
> I've seen crash plan and I used DropBox and iDisk with mobile me
>
> All cloud based backups for me though suffer the same problem, I lack
> symmetric bandwidth and enough data allowances in Australia to make
> that work for me.
>
> So for me its 1TB drive and Time Machine.   It's cheaper just to have
> two drives, one at work, one at home, backup in two places....
>
> On Feb 14, 10:42 am, klauer <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>
>
> > I haven't heard anyone mention CrashPlan (http://www.crashplan.com),
> > which has it's own comparison of pricing terms to its 
> > competitorshttp://b2.crashplan.com/consumer/features-compare.html
>
> > From what it shows, 2TB can be stored at $54/year for one(1) person,
> > which is pretty reasonable in comparison to their mentioned
> > alternatives (Carbonite, Mozy, Pure Amazon S3).
>
> > I've used CrashPlan's free version in the past, and I think the
> > interface is pretty stellar, as it allows you to specify what you want
> > to back up as opposed to having to do a blanket upload of your entire
> > hard drive.
>
> > -Nick

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