Wade, dropbox allows me to put files into a online cloud (I may not be using the correct terms here).

I install dropbox on all my computers, which allows me to access my files from all my computers. It has a limited amount of space on the free version, so I can't use it as a backup per se, but it sure is handy for my document files that I need to grab from one of two notebooks and my desktop.

It's probably the best free tool I've ever found, most particularly if you use more than one computer.