Norton Online Backup simplifies sharing large files with friends and colleagues, or transferring data between household computers. Through a Web browser, users can select and share any of the files they have backed up by generating unique download links that can be emailed to any address. Enhanced file migration assists users with the transfer of files between household computers. Now, files are transferred remotely among any of the computers in the same Norton Online Backup account.
“Norton is a brand that consumers trust to keep them secure and protected. Now consumers can turn to Norton to back up their priceless photos and music collections,” said Rowan Trollope, senior vice president, Consumer Products and Marketing, Symantec, in the press release. “With the combination of our brand, worldwide reach, and these latest technical improvements, we intend to bring online backup to consumers in a major way.”
“What makes Norton Online Backup stand out from other online backup providers is its ease of use. When you log into your account, backing up and restoring is simple, intuitive, and takes just a few clicks,” said Karla Aycock, Norton Online Backup customer, in the press release. “More importantly, I know I’m leaving my irreplaceable files in the hands of a brand that I trust.”
Norton Online Backup version 2.0 New Features:
• Cross-platform functionality for Windows and Mac computers supports Microsoft XP, Vista, Windows 7 and Mac OS X (including Mac OS X 10.6, “Snow Leopard”);
• Users can email any backed-up file via download links sent through the redesigned Web dashboard;
• 90-day file versioning saves previous versions of backed-up files for up to 90-days, so older versions can be easily retrieved;
• Advanced search allows users to search for backed-up files by name, date, size and/or type of file;
• Open file backup stores the most current file, even if it’s open (especially important for email files);
• File purge and storage management makes it easy for users to remove previously backed-up files in order to clear up available storage space;
• Additional new features include improvements to file migration, the automatic initial setup, user settings and a more intuitive redesign of the user interface.
Norton Online Backup version 2.0 is now available for purchase in the U.S. through select retail outlets and the Symantec online store. The new version of Norton Online Backup will be updated automatically for current subscribers within the coming weeks.
The suggested retail price for Norton Online Backup is US$49.99 per year, which includes 25 GB of online storage to backup files from up to five computers. Additional storage space can be purchased incrementally at any time.
Source: Symantec
MacDailyNews Take: We’ll sign up for this right after we switch to Windows. 
Symantec and Norton are themselves a virus in my opinion, I’ll pass
Yeah, I’ll stick to Time Machine.
@El Guapo
This is not like Time Machine. I am not endorsing this service, but having a remote back plan is still very valuable. Particularly for data that you can’t simply recreate. I can think of several scenarios where you could still lose your Mac with what ever peripherals are connected to it. My brother had a break in and they took everything that could be carried out. Fire or any other natural disaster. So it depends what you have stored, and how much you value it.
Not.A.Chance.In.Hell.I’ll.Ever.Let.Norton.On.My.Computer.Again!
‘“Norton is a brand that consumers trust to keep them secure and protected.’
hahahahahaha…ok next joke.
Norton is to computing as a rash is to my ass
Norton? Do me a favour.
Want remote backup, try Mozy.
Sorry Symantec, but you lost me as a customer years ago.
Dropbox anyone???
I thought Norton was a noisy Brit motor-cycle. ‘Seems like it’s now a noisy antivirus company.
I can’t recreate myself onsite, no matter how “hard” I try.
Is this the “service” for me?
😀
I have been using Mozy for about 6 months and I really like it. I assume it is similar to Carbonite and some other online backup tools but Mozy has saved me a few times now. I wish Apple would release an API for Time Machine so it could be cloud based through services like Mozy and Carbonite. That would be cool.
It is only appropriate that Norton is named after the guy who worked in the sewers on the Honeymooners.
The day I trust Symantec with my data is the day I switch to Windows. By the way, I’m using backblaze.com as my online backup and I love it.
Norton products were OK, until Norton was bought out by Symantec.
Mozy has made me nuts, and their customer support is not very helpful. Nevertheless, I’m stuck with them until I set up something else.
Heh. I use Carbonite on my MBP (and on my Windows boxes). Worked very well. Norton, backup or AV, not so much.
MozyHome works pretty well for me – on both Mac and PC. MozyPro needs a lot work, however – the interface is extremely convoluted and not user friendly at all.
Use the following link to get 20% more space on a free MozyHome 2 Gb account:
https://mozy.com/?code=D685JF
SpiderOak, thank you very much.
MacLife’s Editor’s Choice, and very good.
Pricing and reliability are great.
Simple to use, but lots of options for power users.
I’ve used ’em all — Dropbox, SugarSync, Jungle Disk, ZumoDrive… SpiderOak is tops.
I used MozyHome for almost a year until its backups began failing left and right. It seemed to take a long time for tech support to respond, and when they did they couldn’t help. It was fixed…temporarily…one time when my complaint was sent up the tech support food chain.
Eventually, I switched to BackBlaze. It seems to work quietly in the background, but I recently encountered a problem where it would max out my CPU when the process started. Had to uninstall and reinstall BackBlaze to get that fixed.
@bon
Does SpiderOak sync files between computers like SugarSync does? Or is SpiderOak more of a backup service only? I wasn’t sure looking at its Web site.
Symantec and Norton will have to do a HELL of a lot before they earn the right to get back on my mac. Anytime you have a ‘security’ ‘repair’ ‘protection’ program that does the opposite, that’s a sign that you don’t know what the hell you’re dealing with.
Many years ago, when I was on the dark side, I had a desktop Dell with Norton installed. It was nothing but a pain. I’d never trust backup somewhere online ‘in the clouds’. Remember the recent problems MS/Sidekick/Palm/and Sprint had with their customers’ downloads? Use Time Capsule and Time Machine.
If you’re paranoid or have stuff that is to you invaluable, make another copy to a portable hard drive and hide it in your garage,
basement, or even a safety box at your bank
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@MDN
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That was one of your better takes! Thanks for the
Norton makes every computer slow and they don’t even have the best amigo virus, I’m switching to another anti-virus when my subscription is over.
I use Egnyte at my office and at home. It allows co-workers to use PC, Mac, iphone, blackberry, droid, and netbooks. Very user friendly solution.
Symantec is a company I hate. They destroyed more good Mac software than any other. I remember More, Think C, Think Pascal, Several Disk repair utilities among others. Their Mac offering degenerated until they were dangerous to load. Die Symantec Die.
@daugav369pils,
That’s what AES 128 or better encryption will do for you. Create a sparsebundle that is encrypted. Create one for each group of files you wouldn’t want to share. Then use Mozy or or on-line backup. After that, you don’t really care who gets your files.