Don't get me wrong. I'm not knocking vmware. In fact, I commend them. For all we know, 4.1 was a "mistake", but 4.1.1 was most likely forced on them by Apple. So, if we should be annoyed with anyone then it should be Apple. After all, as others have already said, if we want to virtualize a Leopard, then it's proof that we've already got the Lion. Not sure why others would want to switch to Parallels. They don't run a Leopard, and never gave us the chance to do so. Thanks vmware. ;-)

Sjk,

I did not. Well, not once I realized that Amazon's Jungle Disk wasn't a flat fee option. Primarily because of the pricing structure of Amazon. I didn't want to have to X per byte when restoring. The other three just offer a flat fee, and I like simple, so I just compared the three mentioned above.

No problem. Again, I haven't started using it yet because I'm waiting for the seeding drives, but once I do, I'll post back with any thoughts and/or experiences. I think many of us are in the same boat due to Mozy's price/policy changes, and there isn't a clear choice of who else is the best. I'll be in touch.

Update: Well, I've used this service for a couple of weeks, and I'm very happy. Here is my experience thus far:

I ordered two seed drives. One for my Mac Pro which has 1.5 TB on it and a second one for my wife's two Macs (iMac & MacBook Pro), the kid's G5, and for my Windows 7 Boot Camp running on the Mac Pro.

The second seed drive copied the four drives and was sent back and put on their servers. I resumed the uploads for the changes that occurred during the 6 days it took to ship and load the seed drives, and all was updated within hours. The same story with first seed drive, but it couldn't hold all of my data, so I'm still trying to catch up on uploading the remaining data. I'll get there, but it will just take awhile.

Things to note: If all of your data won't fit on their 1TB drive, then it will fill it as much as possible, and you'll have to upload the rest via the net.

If you want to put more than one computer on a seed drive, you don't have to do anything special. The CrashPlan app will create a folder for each computer. Yes, you can put a Mac OS and a Windows OS on the same seed drive.

You might want to select "minimal" in the Data de-duplication setting (settings/backup/advanced) otherwise it will take a month to scan a large drive.

I had an initial problem getting the first computer (iMac) to connect to the seed drive. I think the problem was VirusBarrier, but am unsure of exactly what the problem was. Turning it off in the prefs seemed to help. However, I didn't have any problems leaving VirusBarrier on on any of the other Macs. FYI I have Bitdefender on the Windows and didn't have any trouble. The tech support guy said they had trouble with this app before, but hadn't yet found the issue. It seems to be an intermittent issue for both them and myself.

Tech Support: Wow! Top notch! These guys are great. The first guy I spoke with stayed an hour after closing time to get me running! They are in Minnesota and all speak English natively! They are very kind, helpful and polite! I called a few more times and always got great results. The other issues were small questions. Honestly, the tech support is some of the best I've experienced. It's up there with Ben Spink from CrushFTP, Bitfield AB, Metakine, Agile Web Solutions, etc. They are really excellent!

The CrashPlan app: It's very functional. You really don't use it much because you set it and forget it. It runs even when the app is closed. I had the CPU usage set at 100% (when busy and idle) on all computers except for the G5 which I lowered a bit, and can't see any performance hit at all. You can customize the bandwidth used, so it really isn't annoying when it backs up every 15 minutes. If you set it low enough, you'll never notice it. There is a setting for when you are using the computer and one for when it is idle. The only thing to watch is not to set the idle setting too high if you're streaming a NetFlix movie elsewhere in the house. The fact that you can set this is great though! If you'd rather, you can have it back up at night at a specified time which is what I though I'd do, but if you set the CPU and bandwidth settings correctly, you'll be fine with the default 15 minutes setting.Overall: I'm very pleased with CrashPlan in all respects. The only thing I really need to test is the metadata when recovering a file. I'll get back to you on that soon.