Re: Online Backup
Well, the paragraph that I quote from you in the earlier post does leads one to believe that you make a statement that because it is encrypted it is safe. Heck, a company employee is more likely to develop the proper tools and techniques to compromise any system as they have access to the source. I dont need you to tell me how but I appreciate the offer.
I wasn't offering to tell you how, just the offer that if you want knowledge of how I know what you said to be true, I'd be able to provide some background so it doesn't sound like I'm just tooting a horn. For the average user, that isn't being sought after by someone with a criminal intent, the encryption services provided by Carbonite are worth the $50/year. That was my intent with the post. Sorry it wasn't worded justly.
As for e-mails, and photos. There are numerous options. #1 for e-mail is to use Gmail. You can forward all your addresses to a single Gmail account, add your e-mail addresses as "accounts" and no one will even know you use Gmail. You can still use Outlook BUT everything is still available in case something does happen. Photos can and should be uploaded to a service such as Picasa, Photobucket, etc. Easily recoverable and easily made private if they need to be. Website files I do and always will keep a local copy of but depending on the host, should be safe and sound in their datacenter. Also if you're with a web host that does nightly backups, you can write a simple script and backup your tax returns and business documents at a certain time of day. I did that with a business here and just had the script run every day when they went for lunch. Was always done by the time they got back. Granted it was a small business but using their web host as a backup server was a ton better then the floppy disks they were using, sporadically I might add.
Lots of options available but the remote backup is key. Carbonite just happens to be one I have tried and have no complaints about.... yet.