26 Online Backup Services Reviewed

MiMedia is an online backup service with lots of extras like free mobile apps, online media players, and more. Plus, MiMedia currently has one of the biggest free online backup plans anywhere.

Here are the five online backup tiers to choose from with MiMedia:

• 7 GB for FREE
• 100 GB for $4.99 /month
• 250 GB for $9.99 /month
• 500 GB for $20 /month
• 1 TB (1,024 GB) for $35 /month

If you're willing to pay by the year, you can get a pretty good discount on the prices listed above.

MiMedia is an excellent choice among the online backup services, especially if you'd like to play, or share, all your backed up media right from cloud.

ADrive is an online backup service that sports some interesting features like WebDAV support, online document editing, and more.

There are dozens of online backup plans listed on ADrive's site, ranging from $6.95 /month for 50 GB of space to $1,211.50 /month for 10 TB (10,240 GB). You can request a quote if you need more space than that, even up to "unlimited."

All ADrive backup plans can be had at deeply discounted prices if you prepay for a longer time period, up to three years. Multi-user business plans are also available.

ADrive also has a free 50 GB plan but it's not compatible with their automatic-backup desktop software.

MyOtherDrive is another online backup service with some really cool sharing features and a fairly competitive pricing structure.

Below are the prices for MyOtherDrive's online backup plans:

• 2 GB for FREE
• 100 GB for $5 /month
• 500 GB for $10 /month
• 1,000 GB for $20 /month

Pay for one year upfront on either the 100 GB or 500 GB plan and you get a tiny discount. 1 TB, 2 TB, 5 TB, and 10 TB "enterprise" online backup plans are also available and are payable by the year only.

Of all the features offered by MyOtherDrive's plans, I like their flexible collaboration options the most. You can share any of your backed up content publicly, privately by group, or privately by password.

BackUp Solutions is an online backup provider with datacenters in the US, Canada, and the UK. Most online backup companies only have US datacenters, making BackUp Solutions a good option if you're outside the States.

BackUp Solutions offers a single online backup plan for home and small business users: $9.95 /month for unlimited storage. An online server backup plan is also available.

Be sure to check out the "Security (HIPAA)" link on their website for one of the most extensive online backup security discussions I've seen.

Total Defense Online Backup is another service that offers a number of popular features like online and local backup with the same tool, file sharing, mobile access to all backed up data, unlimited versioning, and more.

Four online backup plans are available from Total Defense:

• 25 GB for 59.99 /year
• 50 GB for $79.99 /year
• 100 GB for $149.99 /year
• 250 GB for $374.99 /year

Total Defense doesn't specify how many computers they support on a single account but they do say "multiple" so I'm guessing that means at least a few, possibly unlimited.

MyPCBackup is another online backup service with a really user friendly web interface and a good selection of backup plans.

The MyPCBackup Unlimited plan offers an unlimited amount of online backup space for $12.95 /month.

Two limited plans are also available: MyPCBackup Home which allows up to 75 GB of online storage for $8.95 /month and MyPCBackup Premium which runs $9.95 /month for up to 250 GB of storage space.

All MyPCBackup plans can be had for several dollars per month less with longer terms, up to two years.

Note: MyPCBackup is owned by Just Develop It (JDI), which also owns ZipCloud, JustCloud, Backup Genie, and StudyBackup, four additional online backup services with similar feature sets and pricing. I didn't feel right about profiling them individually in this list considering how incredibly similar they are.