I’ve been using Carbonite for a few weeks now and it’s been backing up ~25 gigs of my data. It’s been really great not having to worry about the archiving and security of the files.

Between the time I started using it and now, a friend had his laptop stolen. He lost pictures and videos of his family in addition to work files. He’d been backing up regularly, but not regularly enough.

If you do not have a solution for backing up your files, I’d suggest looking at Carbonite. For $5/mo, why worry?