I think of Carbonite (off-site storage/backukp) as seamless; it provides automatic backup, the user has hands-off, once it is setup. Of course, I've never had to restore anything, so I'm not exactly qualified to say how effective it is. Ed ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jeff Rutherford" <jeff at jeffrutherford.com> To: "B. Kimo Lee" <bklee at azurelink.com> Cc: "Tom Adams ~ Reelife Productions & Folktography" <tomadams at gmail.com>; "Hidden-Tech Tech" <hidden-discuss at lists.hidden-tech.net> Sent: Friday, February 26, 2010 12:03 PM Subject: Re: [Hidden-tech] lacie extreme disk error messages > I think we should consider a Hidden Tech event specifically re: data > backup. While boring, it's very important to our businesses and lives. > > I sure wish there was a simple solution. I'm constantly backing up to > external drives and to cloud storage. There's no seamless solution in my > experience. > >