Anybody know of any good options for storing data (pics and video files) electronically?

We have a 4 month old at home, which is resulting in a few GB's of pics and vids each month.

My current system is everything on the desktop, everything on an external HD, and everything on DVD's, with the DVD's being stored at my desk at work, in case of a disaster at the house....We (mainly my wife) also take pics on the side of babies/kids/senior pics, which has resulted in quite a lot of pics over the past few years...

I'd like to eliminate at least one of those steps because it is pretty time consuming and tough to find an hour or so to do everything week or two, and keep track of where everything is at.


I'm beginning to search online, but wanted to know if anybody here does anything similar.


I'd like to pay a few bucks a month and just upload all of my files to someone, worst case if all of my things get destroyed down the road, they have all of my files for me.

Maybe something like this?

http://www.dropbox.com/pricing

Some of us don't take pics or vids of our kids because we might miss the experience of actually being there. LOL.

Dropbox is good if you just want to backup you pictures, and documents and such. It isn't really suited for full system backups.

If that's what you need I suggest http://mozy.com/ Mozy Home. It can back up your whole system if you want and is $4.95 a month.

If you are just looking to back up stuff regularly check out Karen's Replicator ( http://www.karenware.com/powertools/ptreplicator.asp )
I have used it for a couple of years to back up my laptop to my external HD.
For off site Spare Backup, Dr. Backup, Remote Data Backups, and Mozy Online Backup are among some of the best-known.