Bandwagon launches tomorrow; it purports to back up your entire iTunes library over the Internet to their servers (or alternatively to your Amazon S3 box) for a flat rate. Updates occur automatically in the background. Sounds like a good idea, if they can pull it off. (Mac only at the moment, apparently.)
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Here’s the thing…it took me all day to back up my iTunes library to 26 DVDs. I’m pretty sure a station wagon full of magnetic tapes would guarantee me better throughput than the internet in this case.
[…] I haven’t had a chance to set up my Bandwagon account yet — and, as has been pointed out, it may not be an optimal solution for large iTunes collections — but I’m a DreamHost […]
So I’m trying it out now — it claims it will take nearly five days to back up the 4270 items in my library (~20 GB). On the other hand, I don’t have to keep popping DVDs into my drive. (On the gripping hand, I’m not paying $24/year to backup my files to my own online storage — hopefully the syncing features will come along soon…)