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Well, I was going to recommend Mozy but then you mentioned online cost. I've had a digital camera for 8 years and, for me, the peace of mind of preserving 10's of thousands of images in an offsite facility cannot be beat.
Honestly, for me, when it comes to backing up my computer I only worry about my documents, financial records, videos, and images.
I have a two tier backup system.
1. I use an external hard drive and I literally use a simple file synchronization utility to sync the data that I care about in two folders. It compares the two directories and finds any out of sync information and then syncs between the two. I use another USB drive to sync Docs between my notebook and home computer. My philosophy is that, if I crash, I don't really care about restoring the entire hard drive but just the stuff I can't re-install. The shareware program I use is many years old but still works great and it's called fsync. I'm sure there are better options out there. The reason I never liked Ghost (even though I had it) is that I don't want a program that eats up memory for something that I can just achieve by occasional file syncs.
2. I use Mozy for the same data above.
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