Tomorrow is World Backup Day evidentially, and I was thinking about my backup strategy. While I think it's pretty tight for the computers in my house, there is one place that I have a gap - offsite storage.

If my house catches fire, I have lost all of my comps and my backups since they are all in the same area.

So my folks and I both use WHS to backup our computers. I was wondering if anyone knew off the top of their head if there was an easy way to choose a couple folders to replicate over in their system and vice versa.

My initial solution is going to be placing documents onto Amazon's Cloud Drive service which offers 5GB free of online storage. There's no dedicated backup service, but I can archive/encrypt my docs and just upload them from time to time.

This will obviously not include any media, but at least I should be able to get documents out there. My pictures are well over 20GB, so that's really not going to work for that.

I see that logmein is now offering a backup service

I have a pair of external USB drives. One is hooked to my computer and set to sync selected folders nightly (this is in addition to our WHS). Periodically, I swap it with the identical mate. Whichever one is NOT connected lives at my work, so we've got offsite backup that way. The sync makes it semi-automated and don't have the delays of cloud backup (wife can shoot couple gigs of photos a day sometimes, so cloud is slow and too small for our needs)