[masraum]

I'm not directing this at the OP, but since I've heard about cloud backup, I've thought that it was really bad idea. Yes, once you get backed up, the incremental backups won't be nearly as painful. Also, most Internet connections are asymmetric, faster download and slower (usually much) upload. Backups are pretty much all upload, so they are going to be extra painful unless you just don't have much to backup. Another issue for me, is that you are putting your stuff on someone else's computer, and then you're trusting your stuff to their security. If you were a hacker, and you could try to hack 100,000 different computers around the world, or you could hack one computer with the data from 100,000 users on it, which would you target?

Yeah, cloud backup, hell no, not for me. Am I in danger of losing stuff to fire or theft, yeah, probably, but that's a risk that I'm willing to take right now. If I wanted to mitigate the risk, I'd probably have a hard drive and some sort of offsite storage, even if that just meant leaving it in my desk at work.