A student reported this week that his “back-up” drive had died causing significant data loss. My first thought was that it was not a “back-up”, rather a “main drive”. Either way it is unfortunate, but something we will all have to deal with at some point. It may be time to consider backing up your data on-line. I still use Box.net which offers 1 GB of free on-line storage (see earlier post).

Jungle Disk http://www.jungledisk.com/ from Amazon. Current prices are .15 per GB per month, .10 per GB to upload, .17 per GB to download. A one time fee of$20 applies for the software. All data is encrypted which should address some security concerns.

Oosah http://www.oosah.com/ promises 1TB (yes 1TB) of free online storage.

I have not tried either service.

-Prof. Lehman