Enter Bitcasa. It appears to be a lot like SugarSync and Dropbox, except that you don't have a special folder, you don't choose which folders to back up, it backs up everything. No matter how many gigs of junk you have, it backs it all up. For $10 a month.
Bitcasa Reveal Video from Bitcasa on Vimeo.
(from a TechCrunch article):
The idea of using the cloud to store files or sync files between devices is not new. Dropbox, SkyDrive, Google Docs, Amazon and countless others have been offering online storage for some time. Plus, companies like Mozy, Carbonite and Backblaze use the cloud to back up your files. Other services, like Megaupload or YouSendIt revolve around sharing files through the cloud.
But Bitcasa is not like any of those services. It doesn’t move files around. It doesn’t sync files. It deals in bits and bytes, the 1′s and 0′s of digital data.
When you save a file, Bitcasa writes those 1′s and 0′s to its server-side infrastructure in the cloud. It doesn’t know anything about the file itself, really. It doesn’t see the file’s title or know its contents. It doesn’t know who wrote the file. And because the data is encrypted on the client side, Bitcasa doesn’t even know what it’s storing.
So if you want to cloud-enable your 80 GB collection of MP3′s or a terabyte of movies (acquired mainly through torrenting, naughty you!), go ahead. Even if the RIAA and MPAA came knocking on Bitcasa’s doors, subpoenas in hand, all Bitcasa would have is a collection of encrypted bits with no means to decrypt them.
It sounds pretty sweet. If you'd like to sign up for the beta, you can click here. Using that link will help me get into the Beta as well. :)
The full TechCrunch article is here.
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