Researching online backup solutions: really must backup family photos properly. Options so far:
mozy: 2G free or $4.95 a month unlimited. Automated backup and offers file versioning for a month which would be handy. Files accessable from web.
carbonite: a different shade of mozy, horses for courses. Trial account but no long term free account.
xdrive: 5G free which is enough. Creates a virtual drive which you copy files to however you like or run their backup software. Web based access to files from anywhere, file sharing, lots of nice features. What puts me off? It's owned by AOL 
flickr: could just upload multiple G of photos to flickr but since they decided to force me to get a yahoo account I haven't been using flickr (yahoo or AOL, I don't want the hassle). Also the upload wouldn't be as totally automatic as mozy or carbonite.
site5: I could cobble something together on my site5 hosting account: I have about 14G free and ssh access so I should be able to do something but it will be a lashup that I would have to nurse along.
Being a dedicated backup solutions, Mozy or Carbonite would almost force me to do backups and do them well. With anything that looked like another hard disk I would end up with yet another disorganised mess. Less flexibility than xdrive could be a good thing. And by avoiding AOL and yahoo I stick it to "the man".
Peter's Moblog
The problem with the mentioned providers is that they do not offer a data retore guarantee. To put it another way would you insure your car with a company where there was a thought they may not pay if you had an accident.