Looking for free online backup? Look no further than Mozy. Why would these guys want to give you free online storage? I don’t really know except that hotmail and gmail basically do the same thing with email.

Note that this isn’t like having an external hard drive - it’s actually for backing up important files that you couldn’t live without if your laptop were broken or stolen. I like mozy because they encrypt everything on their server - they have default encryption settings for novice users and even allow you to provide your own encryption key if you are more advanced.

What’s the catch? You opt in to receive their monthly email and have a 2 GB limit (though you can buy more space for like pennies a month).