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
DriveHQ.com is also a free site that is easy to use. You can connect to it using their web interface or an FTP client. It also allows you to share folders with other users giving you the ability to set permissions on shared folders.