I have recently started to experiment with SugarSync and I believe it will be the way I go for online backup and syncing, because it is simple and economical.
One thing that has always been difficult about backing up a Mac is if one uses iPhoto. iPhoto does a great Job of organizing and giving you basic editing tools. The one downside, is that it keeps all of your photos hidden within it content package. With all of its features it also adds in thumbnails and other miniature version of your photos to make your software experience truly great. This, however, effectively adds a gig or more to the size of the space needed to keep iPhoto rolling. For me this is not the ideal situation for back up as I only care to have the originals backed up (and also SugarSync does not allow full iPhoto syncing across multiple computers).
If you’re like me and you want to have SugarSync just back up the originals, there is an easy way to accomplish this. If you have SugarSync installed on your Mac you can right click any folder and request that SugarSync to start syncing that folder. To access your iPhoto originals, cruise over to your pictures folder, right click the iPhoto Library icon and click “show package contents.” Once inside there right click the folder “masters” and request that SugarSync “sync” that folder and give it some time, because it is gonna be a lot of space to fill up.
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