Online Backup services

There appear to be about 7 or 8 online services. I intend to use it as a back-up to my external hard drive, it case the MAC drive and the WD drive fail at the same time. I only have about 50GB of data at the moment.
What are your experiences with respect to intial upload, cost, ease of recovery?
Thanks

I would only suggest an online service "In Addition" to a full local backup.
Online services have their issues, especially with Macs, as a lot of them focus on Windows customers first, and do not always test their Mac versions as well as they should.
Having said that, having an off-site backup is good, and using an online service one way to do that, but I would also have a local backup. That way you have a greater chance of recovering something in case of an Oops!
For Local backups, I like both Time Machine and SuperDuper (some like Carbon Copy Cloner instead of SuperDuper). The SuperDuper/Carbon Copy Clone gives you a bootable backup, which can be very useful in recovering from a total disk failure.
Time Machine is can be used to restore an entire system as well, plus it gives you incremental backups, so you can get several generations of file changes back again.
Where I do not like Time Machine, is when using a laptop, and you attempt to do Time Machine over the net. Putting the laptop to sleep (so you can take it out of the house) in the middle of a backup can result in corrupting the backup, and you end up starting over again from scratch. But a desktop system is idea for Time Machine as the equipment stays put.

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