One of the things I am obsessive about is losing my work. I have had hard disks die in the past and since then I have been attentive about backing up my data I  want and need to save. It helps that backing up has become simpler with massive hard drives and faster CD burners. Recently I have been looking for an off-site backup solution for one of my clients. We tried a “roll your own” method. It had a nasty habit of to just drop the connection before the backup was completed.

The next thing I did of course was to Google “cloud backup” and I looked into the numerous services that I found. I tried several and decided on OPENRSM CloudBackup. The interesting thing is that it has advanced features, works on Windows, MAC, and Linux, and has a scalable cost model.  The standard offering is 50GB of data storage for only $4.00/month.You will only pay extra fees if you go over 50GB of storage, no matter how many computers you have running OPENRSM CloudBackup.And since each Gig is only pennies, that’s pretty cool.

A lot of the online backup offerings were similar, the two things that make OPENRSM CloudBackup better was support for multiple systems and network drive. In my office I have my Windows machine and a Linux box. Using OPENRSM CloudBackup it can also able to backup all of those files remotely as well. Now I have a local backup of my files in case of hard drive failure on my desktop, and a remote online backup in case there is some other kind of catastrophe here at my house. After the first backup it’s as fast as lightning.

If you want to make sure your home files are safe or if you have a small business, like me, you’ll want to give online backup a whirl. I’ve been using it at home and the office for a while now and have been very happy with it. I hope I never have to use it to recover my files but it is good to know they’re safe in case something bad happens.