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squeegee:
Can anyone comment on a service they like and why?

I'm looking for a good service to backup about 5-6 computers and a network drive.

TIA for any opinions.

Squeeg

Fresh Baked Printing:
I can't comment on any specific cloud service but the killer for me is how can I backup up a computer that ALREADY has 10+ gigs of files? Would take forever and timeout before it ever completes the backup, no?

Command-Z:
A buddy of mine is on the cutting edge of this. Before he started his own business, he was IT guy for a large advertising firm and he set that company up on cloud-based servers. The whole company, that is, except the creative department. Multi-layer Photoshop files and huge video files are simply too much for the cloud. Right now, it's great for backing up business documents, not so much for big art files.

Even for the business files, they had to send a disk to the cloud server company for the initial backup, then subsequent backups are done online.

ZooCity:
We have biz docs, data stuff, etc. in the cloudiness but all the art files are on the workstations hard drive, backed up by a time machine drive. 

I'll be jumping on this as soon as it's a feasibility.  I think our problem here in the U.S. might be how dismally slow and ancient our internet service is.  There's a PBS documentary on this that's interesting.  Apparently our tax dollars paid for the upgrade but we were never delivered the goods.

squeezee:
I've got a bit of cloud with 1.5GB in it, no big artwork files - just not practical - but it works OK, it's just a disaster insurance programme.  It backs up on the fly and just resumes the session when back on line so there is no real limit to the sizes.
Bear in mind that your download speed is often 10x your upload speed, I have a 10GB service, but the upload speed is only 1GB.

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