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I've been using Arq lately for online backups:

http://www.haystacksoftware.com/arq/index.php

It can act as a frontend to Amazon Glacier, just punch in your Amazon API keys. Considering ingress into the Amazon world is free and it's a penny per GB per month to store, I've basically paid $1/month to keep 100GB of personal data safely backed up at Amazon.

I'll need to pay more than that to get my data back out, because Amazon charges retrieval fees to get things out of Glacier, but if my on-location backups should fail to rescue me, then this has my back.

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Really sorry to hear about the OP getting burgled. It sucks, I know, and I was lucky enough that my laptop was missed when I was burgled - if it had been taken I'd have been in that awful position as my only backup was right next to the laptop. Scared me in to doing proper backups though!

Arq definitely gets my recommendation too. I've been using it for a little over a year, paying about $3 per month, and the peace of mind is fantastic. It's a last resort, and I have a number of other offsite backups on normal external drives, but with this backup running every hour, I'm extremely unlikely to ever lose more than an hour's work.

It's really nice because the encryption is client side, so you're not really trusting Amazon with too much, and there's an open source restore utility on github, so you don't need to worry too much about haystack going out of business.

It's also, in my experience, much, much faster to upload to than any of the other online services I've tried (Backblaze, Crashplan).

Is there a windows/linux equivalent for this?

A Google search for "windows glacier backup" turned this up in the top few results, so this may be doable:

http://www.cloudberrylab.com/amazon-glacier-storage-backup.a...

And for Linux it seems like this one might be an option, but, YMMV:

http://www.janoszen.com/2013/10/14/backing-up-linux-servers-...

I'm using Arq as well. Easy to setup, reliable through AWS S3 and encrypted on the client.

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