DreamHost would be a crappy backup solution if you care about your data. Having used them for over 2 years now I can say without a doubt they're unreliable; they certainly offer a lot of control and they're very cheap, but I'd never host mission-critical stuff with them. And you're right, once you start hitting the limits with DH they tend to balk -- just ask Warren Ellis: http://www.warrenellis.com/?p=3327

Mozy looks interesting -- how long have you been using them?

I agree with you on all those points.

I've been using Mozy for maybe 3-4 months. Their backup agent is very easy to use, very "set it & forget it", and you can configure it to only upload at certain times, or only use a certain amount of bandwidth, or only start backing up if you've been idle for a while or whatever. So it's very polite & configurable. Several other services I've tried (not to say I've tried everything, ofc), sucked by comparison.

That ease of use, plus the fact that they're not super expensive, was big for me. There are cheaper providers, but $50/year vs $30/year vs free/year wasn't as important to me as finding a solution that wasn't going to take me hours to set up or slow down my computer all the time.

My two biggest complaints about Mozy are 1) they don't support backups on servers, and 2) they don't compress files before uploading. Both issues aren't really a big deal for most consumers (whose largest files they're backing up are uncompressable pictures and videos), but are an annoyance for "business" type users like me. They don't have a Mac client, either, which they're supposedly working on but probably not too hard.

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