Best way to back up to the cloud

So far I have backed up my Mac to iDisk using MobileMe, but since it is going away, and since my MacBook was 4+ years old, I bought a new MacBook pro with lion. What are my choices for backing up to the cloud, since iCloud won't back up my documents with some exceptions?
Dropbox?
Something else?
I also back up to an external HD using time machine.

Thanks Jim, and yes I meant 27 mb. Will be living on a sail boat so there is potential to lose both the laptop and external drive. The cloud was to be my 3rd copy
Date: Fri, 20 Dec 2013 16:53:44 -0800
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You really have images that are 27 GB each? I suspect you meant 27 MB. But, even then, I think cloud backup might be cumbersome. I would suggest carrying a small external hard drive. I have a 1 TB USB 3 drive that is really fast and very small. No external power supply. Plug it in, and copy the files. That's what I would do.
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What's the best way to back up to the cloud?

I am going to be traveling in the on a boat in Europe. Access to wifi could be limited and slow. I want to back up my photos and catalog to the cloud as there is potental to lose laptop and external drive. Since I have a 25 mp camera and will be shooting in Raw allot, there will be some big files as each photo could be around 27 gb.
All of my files will be in the My pictures folder LR set up when I set up my new catalog. I planned to back up these folders to the cloud, then send just the new folders each time I add them to LR during import. Then I was going to have the catalog BK that is created each time you close LR (just the data only is in this file) sent to the cloud as well.
Then if my laptop is lost I can copy the back up catalog (just the data file) and the My Pictures file that has all my photos in folders to a new laptop and restore my catalog. I'm told by Adobe help that this won't work as the connection between the photos and the catalog back up will be lost.
Is this correct? And if so, what's a better method.

Thanks Jim, and yes I meant 27 mb. Will be living on a sail boat so there is potential to lose both the laptop and external drive. The cloud was to be my 3rd copy
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You really have images that are 27 GB each? I suspect you meant 27 MB. But, even then, I think cloud backup might be cumbersome. I would suggest carrying a small external hard drive. I have a 1 TB USB 3 drive that is really fast and very small. No external power supply. Plug it in, and copy the files. That's what I would do.
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Best Way to Back up Video to the Cloud?

I wish to preserve my movies and have decided to back them up to the cloud. I would like recommendations; perhaps Amazon Cloud? Also, is there anything else I should know? Thanks!

I am using CrashPlan for this.
CrashPlan lets you seed your cloud backup with a 1TB disk drive that they send you, so that you only have to send online new files, or files that will not fit within 1TB.
I currently have about 1.5TB backed up to the cloud. I have all my DV, all my h.264, and all my VHS and Hi8 backed up to the cloud. For my AVCHD, I only backup the archive copy from the camera, and the completed movie, because the Apple Intermediate Codec versions of the Events are too large to backup to the cloud on a timely basis. So the Archive copy is fine, and it is the first generation copy anyway. I also backup my documents folder, my iTunes library, and my iPhoto and Aperture libraries to the cloud.
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What is the best way to back up my imac

I am new to using an imac and wondered what is the best way to back the data up? Can I back it up to the cloud and if so how do I do this?

The first response pretty much covers it. Time Machine is a great backup for restoring individual files or folders. It can also be used as a full system restore, but you cannot boot from a TM backup and run the computer from it. You can do that from a clone, which can be useful should your hard drive fail utterly.
I have a TM backup on one external drive, and I use bus powered portable external drives for clones. I like thes as I can keep one offsite, and another one stays at home, but is in the firesafe except when being updated.
The two main cloning apps are Shirt Pocket Software's SuperDuper, and Bombich softeware's CarbonCopyCloner, both very reasonably priced. Note that CCC will work over a network, while SuperDuper will not - other than that they have very similar features, including automatic update scheduling.
http://www.shirt-pocket.com/SuperDuper/SuperDuperDescription.html
http://www.bombich.com/
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What's the best way to back up laptop?

Hi all,
This is probably a dumb question, but I'm going to ask it anyway. What's the best way to back up a laptop: hooking up a hard drive manually, or via WiFi?
In the past, I've just hooked up a hard drive to my MacBook Pro, and manually synced it with Time Machine. But, of course, sometimes I'm busy and I don't get around to doing that as faithfully as I should. So, I'm thinking of hooking up a hard drive to my AirPort so that my laptop will automatically sync over WiFi whenever I'm home.
Before I do that, however, two questions:
1) Is that easier to do than the way I'm currently backing up? Or are there problems with that route that I'm not foreseeing right now? How do you all back up your laptops?
2) I also have a Mac Pro on my network at home. Will I have a problem with my Mac Pro seeing the WiFi "Time Machine" hard drive and wanting to back up to it, rather than the Time Machine hard drive I already have physically hooked up to it?
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learn about backups VS. archives, and data protection:
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Four words: "compartmentalized autonomous redundancy of data" or C.A.R.D. What this means regarding your data is “centralize it, isolate it, and multiply it”. This easy acronym to remember about how to approach your data is a great first approach to keep in mind.
Compartmentalized: separating out your data from your system files, centralizing all static and active files into a location or two to make backups, and archived data easier to update and locate. Centralizing your data collection is the primary hazard to overcome for what usually is the case of data that is scattered everywhere throughout your internal hard drive.
Autonomous: Isolation of data from changes, theft, decentralizing data to safes, fire boxes, offsite and online locations. Importantly ‘freezing’ data onto independent storage media for protection and from alterations, such as DVDs, hard drives, and online encrypted files, or .DMG created files of static data collections.
Redundancy: making copies of all autonomous isolated data such that data is decentralized not only in place and in media storage type (DVD, HD, online) for safety and protection as a failsafe, but each aspect of that failsafe has at the very least two redundant copies.
Data: all files made, saved, created, modified or working on. Important pictures, documents, videos, PDF, financial, personal. Any data large or small which you would not dare lose, which is private, important, hard or impossible to recreate, or most importantly, would take tremendous time to regenerate. Essentially anything important to you, your company, your loved ones (will, medical records, financial information, etc.), friends or otherwise.

What is the best way to back up itunes library

I have my imac time machine program set to back up my computer every day to an external hard drive. I recently updated itunes and I lost some of my songs. I tried to find them in time machine but I couldn't find them. itunes support was good and I was able to download them again but I'm wondering what is the best way to back up my songs so I don't have to ask to download them again. I have a lot of podcast that I don't want to keep hard copies of they aren't as important to me.
As of now I have all the songs burned to a music cd but I just want to know if others think that time machine isn't the best back up for itunes and the cd's are the way to go.
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see _*The Complete Guide to Backing Up your iTunes Library*_.
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TimeMachine 101
https://support.apple.com/kb/HT1427

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What is the best way to back up tv shows from iTunes?

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What is the best way to back up iTunes on an external HD w/o getting numbers & dashes or underscores added to the begenning of the title? ex: "10_Help"

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