Cheap Online File Backup for Mac/PC

Date: March 28th, 2010  Category: Things  Tags: mac, online file backup, pc  [ View Comments ]

I finally decided to signup for an online file backup service today. After an hour or so of research I signed up for Backblaze. I did of course check out Mozy and Carbonite but found Backblaze had better Mac OSX integration than the others (see info below) and some other nice bells and whistles. They’re all bout $5.00 a month for unlimited storage of your personal files and all fairly easy to setup.

Bottom line: Backblaze had the tightest Mac OSX integration (works great for PC/Windows too). It operates as a daemon and continuously backs up files while others were just “backgrounded applications” which backed up files on a schedule. It also seemed much lighter on system resources as well. Finally, I liked how Backblaze tucks everything neatly away in my Macs System Preferences.

For more info on how it all works, check out their “how it works” page.