I know we've taked about data backups on here before and thinking of the Katrina type scenario where your home and everything in it is gone then its a good idea to keep backups of inmprtant stuff offsite. I just got a $30 DVD burner and stuck it inside a $20 USB case so I could plug it into either machine at my house and make some backups that can me stored elsewhere.

I just ran a quick backup of our pictures on my wife's and my laptop, hers fit on one dvd, mine on two (my buner will do dual layer so I can get a dual layer dvd and get that down to one). I have all our photo albums scanned from when we got married in 95 to 2000 when we switched to using a digital camera as well as one of my old baby books so I have the majority of our pictures backed up now on a dvd in our fireproof safe.
I backup our systems to external drives usually weekly and am thinking about making monthly dvd backups of important stuff like the pictures and taking them to my parents house or mailing them when we are not going to be going there for a while. I might buy a small fireproof safe and put there to store them and leave a key with them then burna dvd of their systems when we visit and bring it back with me to store for them. I'm trying to decide if I should send monthly backups down there, or maybe alrenate with my local ones and then after a year replace the monthly with yearly, etc.

How often everyone do you make one?
What do you use, CD, DVD, Tape?
Do you just store them at someone elses house or a safe deposit box?
How do you get them there, mail, hand deliver?
I'm wondering if anyone else does offsite backups