Online cross-network backup services?

[Christopher Browne]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amazon_S3

Has anybody been making any use of services like Amazon S3 for backups
and the likes?

It is pretty cheap:
 - $0.15/GB per month for storage used
 - $0.10/GB for data transferred in
 - $0.18/GB for data transferred out

A few gigs of backups, encrypted, should cost just a few dollars a
month to store.

There are a bunch of services that seem to offer more "packaged"
backup services; the names tend to be less known (ergo an uncertainty
as to likelihood of their ongoing survival) and they tend to have a
Windows orientation.

It seems to me that with S3, one could script up a backup system that
would cost just a few bucks a month that could even be pretty
generalizable...

Looks like Jeremy Zawodny has some interesting relevant links...

http://jeremy.zawodny.com/blog/archives/007641.html
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