Damnit I can't sleep!
By Crom I can’t get to sleep. I’m up so late my machine started it’s nightly backup schedule. You backup your machine… don’t you?
The best strategy for backing up is to buy a pair of external hard drives and back up to one nightly. Once a month, pay a visit to your bank and stick the drive into a safe deposit box. Start backing up to the alternate drive. Repeat the process each month.
That, or use DVD’s… good luck if you archive all of your home videos and photos. Actually, being religious about uploading photos to flickr and print-houses like Snapfish is a great way to back up your photos. I mean, what’s the chance of a major flickr server annihilation and a har drive crash at home happening simultaneously?