With Pogoplug, you essentially create your own "cloud storage" with a USB drive you already have.

In other words, you could connect one of the external drives that you have to your Pogoplug, and then be able to access those files from any computer connected to the Internet or via the My.Pogoplug web client. This is great for music, as you are doing in your case.

You can also use Pogoplug's Active Copy feature to back up the contents of the drive to your other external drive.

To clarify - Pogoplug does not upload or store files on somebody else's server, though. So, if you bought a Pogoplug and set it up how I described, you'd be getting lots of extra functionality but not an extra, off-site backup on somebody else's servers. For that you would have to use a different service.

It is pretty easy to integrate other cloud storage programs in with Pogoplug. I use MobileMe to sync my documents but then use Active Copy to back them up to my Pogoplug, for example.

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Why doesn't my PogoPlug-connected hard drive show up as a backup option in either Windows (7 - 64-bit) Backup or Norton 360 Backup programs? What is the simplest way to make it visible to these backup programs? I have a 2TB Micronet Fantom Drive connected to the PogoPlug USB port and want to use it for backup from three or four networked computers using either Norton 360 or Windows own backup/restore program [all types of files, not just photos or music (none)]. I presently use it for common-point access to certain files and installation disk copies. It is good at that, but slow from a remote location over the Internet!
Thanks.