Originally Posted By: Eugene
Connect to the corporate vpn and backup that way. If I would take my company owned laptop and backup to some non company owned service I'd be fired. Very few companies will allow anything like that and when they do its only trough company approved sites where they have the proper legal documents in place.
The example would only work for a small home office, not any larger business.


Okaaaay...This thread is about backup for individuals (and small businesses I guess). Anyway, note that backing up to the corporate VPN (which you mentioned) is a form of online backup.

Originally Posted By: Eugene
That example is the reason why I've recieved a dozen e-mails over the lats couple weeks from various companies letting me know that my e-mail address has been stolen from a marketing company called epsilon. When you send your date off to a third party you loose control.


I have been using online backup for over four years for my small business and my personal. I have not experienced the issue you mentioned, but the online backup has proven its weight in gold because I have had to restore data a few times. (By the way, I don't use Mozy, which was the source of that email I posted above.)
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