If you value your digital data, be it photos, music or digital documents, an offsite backup is critical to your peace of mind. If Irene (the hurricane) taught us anything, we have been reminded that we live on an island and may be forced to leave our homes and/or businesses at a moment's notice.
We recommend Crashplan (www.crashplan.com) for offsite backups of your critical data. We use the service ourselves and have helped several clients restore critical data from their Crashplan backups.
Crashplan offers a 30 day free trial and very reasonable plans for both individual workstations or groups of computers. For the price of a couple of cups of coffee a month, your data can be securely saved offsite.