[mikezupan]

I use backblaze now who gives you free recoveries (via downloading) if you need it or you can pay to get a drive shipped to you (I forget the pricing on it.)

Why should I use you over paying $5 a month for backblaze? From what I can tell you basically do the same thing for almost 5x the cost.

[jacquesc]

Yeah, the physical component has its upsides and downsides. The costs and margins are high for sure. The big advantages are a full backup of your drive. Try restoring your backblaze backup sometime, it won't be easy. Having tried Backblaze, Crashplan, and Carbonite, I've found I stick with external drive cloning (from the people we've interviewed so far, I'm definitely not alone).

[dublinben]

I've never used Backblaze, but restoring with Crashplan is pretty simple. I can restore my entire user folder as backed up in under an hour. I've done it more than once, and would never consider it lacking.

[gsibble]

Ehhhh.....I use a 1TB time machine with my Mac. And backblaze. I'm covered under most imaginable circumstances and it's much cheaper and automatic than doing drive cloning.

Neat idea though.

[ukd1]

Same for me to, but just upgraded the drive to 3TB (it's really easy). Works really well.