A particular pain point that I've had managing websites and services hosted over a hodgepodge of shared hosting accounts and VPSes is centralized and secure backup of web content and databases. AKA, I can schedule complete backups of the source files and database contents across multiple hosting accounts.
While some hosting services have their own internal backup systems, and there are a number of local backup clients you can run, the market of cloud backup service providers that offer a backup-everything service seems to be pretty sparse.
Of course, the major caveat is that in order for such a service to work, you must provide them with credentials to access all of your servers. While services like Mint seem to have slowly made more people comfortable with this idea, it still feels "wrong".
What solutions exist for this problem? Has anybody had experiences (good or bad) with cloud backup providers like dropmysite.com or similar services?
While some hosting services have their own internal backup systems, and there are a number of local backup clients you can run, the market of cloud backup service providers that offer a backup-everything service seems to be pretty sparse.
Of course, the major caveat is that in order for such a service to work, you must provide them with credentials to access all of your servers. While services like Mint seem to have slowly made more people comfortable with this idea, it still feels "wrong".
What solutions exist for this problem? Has anybody had experiences (good or bad) with cloud backup providers like dropmysite.com or similar services?