Digital Home Thoughts: Acronis Online Backup Promotion

"Protect your digital life and valuable information with the new Acronis Online Backup service featuring 250 GB storage space in a highly protected online vault! Now the backup and recovery process is much more convenient than ever before - you can backup your critical files to your online personal safety deposit box from up to 5 PCs or laptops and download any of those files remotely from any Internet-connected PC. We are happy to offer you the annual subscription to this new service only for $29.95.... This is a limited time special introductory promotion expiring February 15th."

Data backup is something that we all know we should do, but too often overlook. And gone are the days when a handful of floppies - or even CDROMs - are sufficient for the task. Acronis markets a number of products, for both business and home use, with an emphasis on data backup and recovery applications. Until Febraury 15 they are offering a nice discount on their Online Backup service, which appears to have a good feature set, as well as a 30-day Free Trial if you wish to try it out first. We have always done cross-system backups, along with burning the odd CD/DVDROM (or floppy!) for selected data, and recently added an automated external hard drive backup unit, but these are largely tied to a single physical location and thus open to possible simultaneous loss - something an online solution would avoid. What backup method(s) do you employ? And, does an online solution seem attractive, or not?