Anybody tried Mozy?

Found the answer to the computer question.  It's $4.95 a month per computer.  Still not bad though.  There's also a business version that has a server option, but there's a per GB charge on that one as well.  The $4.95 personal account is unlimited. 

You've probably seen their commercials and had no idea what they were selling.  There's one where a washing machine falls on somebody's notebook. 

They're an online backup service.  But the more I looked at it, the less I liked the way it works.  You have to have a program installed and running all the time on your computer.  And I'm not a big fan of having much running.  And if you delete a file from your computer it's deleted from their servers as well so it doesn't sound like it protects you against deleting a file or changing the contents.  I guess I'll stick with the server sitting in my dad's study a couple hundred miles away.

The software that came with my RAID set-up has a back up that you can configure to run as often as you like and only copy the folders or drives you want. I have it mirror an entire drive every night, and I keep all the important stuff on that drive.

Not sure if Mozy is any different that Carbonite on how it works. I know they're both pretty cheap for what they do. One problem with all of those options, and an offsite server, is if you have to be on satellite internet like me. There's a bandwidth limit per hour of downloads and uploads. If you go over it they shut your access down to just a trickle for 24hrs. It's a bit ...frustrating at times. I pay well above base price for higher speed an download limits but still have to watch how much I download at one time. $80 a month and I'm slower than DSL with a download limit and hope that the weather doesn't get too bad. Sorry for the rant.

I actually saw a 1 TB external drive in a BH Photo catalog today for about $106. When I looked online I couldn't find the same one, but I did find this which is about the same:

http://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/594502-REG/Buffalo_HD_CE1_0TIU2_1TB_DriveStation_Combo_HD_CEIU2.html