Backupify provides a service to back up your online stuff,... online. Stuff like GMail, Hotmail, Google Docs, Blogger and Wordpress blogs, Flickr, Twitter, Facebook, .... and the list goes on.
You set up the services and accounts you want Backupify to back up and they take it from there. In some cases you need to give them your user id and password (yes, that did make me nervous) and where possible, they use the target service's authentification protocols.
Backupify uses Amazon's data services for storage, rather than build out their own infrastructure. If you have an Amazon S3 account, you can use that as the storage location and use Backupify to simply gather up the stuff to back up.
At first I was a bit skeptical of things. More than a little apprehensive to give out my Gmail password and so on. I heard a podcast by Leo Laporte where the head guy at Backupify was interviewed and that was interesting. The podcast is here (on "Net at Night" episode 135) and the interview starts about 31 minutes into the podcast.
If you're interested in this service, get signed up in the next couple of days - Their giving out free accounts until the end of January.
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