CrashPlan has swooped in and knocked every cloud backup system I previously used to use out of contention. They've made an awesome product and they provide it

CrashPlan has swooped in and knocked every cloud backup system I previously used to use out of contention. They've made an awesome product and they provide it at an awesome price. Previously, I was a user and big proponent of Jungle Disk, but that product has become all but completely abandoned since being gobbled up by Rackspace. (I love how their solution to comments about going radio silent and not updating their blog in over a year was to just take the blog down and put up a "The Jungle Disk blog is currently unavailable" message, as if the blog were just temporarily offline. One of their last blog posts was a "Future of JungleDisk" post, outlining tons of features that, 16 months later, were nowhere to be seen). I had been recommending Carbonite to friends and family for an easy-for-normal-people backup solution, but their performance falls short of CrashPlan, and their heinous near-silent default exclusion of video files from backups would have led to serious tears if we had ever actually needed to restore from backup. (Automatic backing up of video files is reserved as a feature for the new $150/yr HomePremier plan - which at least now makes this fact somewhat visible. Previously, there was damn little to indicate that this exclusion was happening). That made Carbonite something much less than the "set it and forget it" backup for my non-technical friends and family that it was supposed to be. CrashPlan is nice and friendly, has no hidden "gotchas" that I have found yet, and has a great PRO service as well. The client GUI can even be made to connect to the daemon on a headless server through an SSH tunnel, just with a simple change in port number in the config and forwarding the remote port through the tunnel.