OK so we all know important backups are, but many still wait for the fateful day that their PC or laptop crashes. I thought i would share a list of online storage websites that are free. From the popular to perhaps a few unknown.

1. Dropbox -  2Gig Free (Up to 16 Gig with referrals )
2. Google Drive   -  5Gig Free 
3. Skydrive  -  7Gig Free 
4. Minus  -  10Gig Free  (Up to 50 Gig with referrals )
5. Ubuntu One   -  5Gig Free 
6. Sugarsync  -  5Gig Free 
7. ADrive  -  50Gig Free 
8. CX   -  10Gig Free 

Currently use Ubuntu One and Dropbox and sometimes Google Drive. I use Ubuntu on my laptop so the ubuntu one was a simple choice.

We’re actually exploring this space right now.

I think we’re going to do a cloud storage PLUS a local backup. Costs of storage is coming down so much it’s foolish not to create backups of critical information.

I’m glad to find this post as recently one of my laptops crashed and I lost all the data. I have used DropBox, Google Drive and Sugar Sync in the past, I will definitely check out the other ones that have been mentioned in this post. Thanks! 

As Apple says “When you sign up for iCloud, you automatically get 5GB of free storage. And that’s plenty of room, because of the way iCloud stores your content. Your purchased music, movies, apps, books, and TV shows — as well as your Photo Stream — don’t count against your free storage. That 5GB goes a long way for your mail, documents, account information, settings, and other app data.”Then I also replicate off site.
Have a place you go often, buy a spare wireless drive and automate the backup when you are in the area. I set my wife to have hourly backups, one of wich is saved every day, one day is saved every week and one week is saved every month. The monthly backup is never deleted. Multiple PC’s can backup to one  wireless device. 
I have a second device in a location that I visit daily, and backup there as well.
None of which will matter when the zombies come.

@richardmclaughlin- I already filled out my GDrive and I need to delete some things in my trash… I did find some other that gives you unlimited storage called cloud zow. I like that cost as it is monthly and it does back up everything in the background. If you want to know more, please message me directly as I am not sure I can just place my link here in the forum. Thanks. @kc_kreative @claudiapoeckl @michaelpingree @rich-brooks @dianebianchi @shemric @rebecca-craig. I also have a service that will allow me to store unlimited videos as well.