For personal or small business use, Amazon S3 is a useful as well. I am
in
US for few months and all my data is accessible here since it was backed
up
on S3. There are lots of tools for Linux, Windows and Even mobile that
can
sync a filesystem with S3 buckets. And it has an open API too.
This may be a viable solution for small data sets. Besides, 'Net connectivity speeds is also a factor.
Can you give a ball park idea of how much data you are backing up in the cloud?
Data is not large, its around 20 GB. Mostly photos/videos so cant compress it. Net connectivity is definitely as issue. In Mumbai it takes 4 - 5 days to sync 4 GB worth of Pics/Videos once I empty Memory card form camera to PC. Have scheduled sync to run only in time window of 12 AM to 6 AM.
It costs 200 - 400 per month. That includes hours of VMs on EC2 that I create to try out that things that require 3 - 4 GB download or higher.
-Shamit http://shamit.in/dpal