<p>I received a solicitation from a company called "Student Backup" and was wondering if anybody has used or has heard of this company. Thanks.</p>
<p>I'm not sure if this is the company that came recommended by S's college with a special offer for $4/month automated backups. I threw away the letter when I got to the part that said it was only for Windows based PCs. Son has a Mac. But it looked like a very good backup solution at a reasonable cost and the student didn't have to do anything except leave the computer on and connected to the Internet overnight. Backups were automatic. I liked the fact that the college endorsed it, too.</p>
<p>I went searching for a similar program for Macs and found <a href="http://www.mozy.com%5B/url%5D">www.mozy.com</a>. I need to research it a little more, but they have a free backup with a limit of 2 GB ($4.95 per month backs up everything)!.</p>
<p>My husband backs up his laptop every night onto a portable hard drive. Both my kids have a 120 GB portable HD as well as a flash drive. Of course, have these items and using them all the time is something my daughter hasn't really seen the importance of! Her school actually has a back up for the students to use, although I have no idea how it works other than it doesn't cost me extra :-)</p>