I backup several different ways. Pendrives are good for COPIES of important stuff. Encryption is preferred in case you lose them. Acronis isn't mentioned but works with vista and 7 and is network aware for image dumps. DVD are still preferred when someone wants to borrow something. After all if all your flicks are on a raid 1 partition they can wait 10 minutes for a disc to burn .But that's just how I do it, everyone has their own method, or they should anyway. Decent article for beginners.