Here are some reviews of two types of services that can serve as online
backup. The first page is a review of about 40 straight backup services,
the second page is a review of the top five file sharing services, which
can also be used as backup services. Some are expensive, some are cheap,
some are free for limited sized backups. Hint; if you have more to
backup than one product will allow you under a freeaccount, use two or
more products. Another hint, I use Dropbox for several accounts with
different groups to shareand collaborate on documents and other projects
and I don't have Dropbox installed. You only need the program installed
if you want to have constantly-on file updatingbetween your computer and
the online storage. Otherwise, you can just use the online log-in and
the uploaderpage. Another plusto not downloading Dropbox is that
youwon't have another process running in the background which adds one
more item to slow down an already slow running computer.
For us, I bought a 1 TB external drive several years ago and use it for
backup on my desktop, my wife's desktop and our laptop. We've used just
over 1/3 of the space so far. You could also gothe route of using
however many thumb drives you need for your backups and keep the masters
stored somewhere safe, while you use another set at home.
Another plus for us, we use Linux-Mint so all we have to do is store a
list of our installed software, not the actual software and we can
reinstall itall automatically from that list using our backup program.

http://pcsupport.about.com/od/maintenance/tp/online_backup_services.htm

http://lifehacker.com/5503770/five-best-online-file-sharing-services

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<http://wiki.vinuxproject.org/>.
Testimonials from Vinux users;
http://www.vinuxproject.org/what-vinux-users-think.
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