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Al Luckow just gave me a beta pass for Bitcasa and it really is quite elegant. You add folders from your computer and those folder’s get sent to Bitcasa servers, and then the folder and all the data is erased from your hard drive, and the folder is then a network mounted file server point is put where your folder was. Congrats - you have just moved your data to the cloud.

Pros: Amazing! Really simple, very fast, no bugs (in OS X.Lion).

Cons: No network - no data! Well, that is not exactly true. If you have accessed the files recently they are still accessible when you have no network. Also, if you use the Bitcasa app to “disconnect” the folder, or use the Finder’s eject next to that mounted folder, your orignal folder shows back up. However, this is not a copy of the Bitcasa files, simply the folder as it was before “moving” it to Bitcasa.

So, you are moving your files off of your computer and into the cloud. Make sure to keep a backup someplace!