The way I see it, it's not the end of the world if an offsite backup gets even an entire month behind--it's really for those times when disaster strikes and the backup(s) you had sitting right next to the computer no longer present a viable restore option. I work from home as well also, but we do have an office about an hour's drive away. If something so bad happens that my data at both locations is destroyed, then I was probably sitting somewhere in-between as well and I'm probably no longer in a position where I'd still care all that much about any of the data I've collected over time. That said, I wouldn't suggest to anyone a cloud backup is out of the question. I just find it impractical for myself because of sheer volume--and I'm not going to take the time now to figure out what can be in a cloud backup account, and what can be kept separate.