Backing Up my files  - question

Having read an article on Macworld about backing up which made things very clear and simple, I've decided to go ahead and back up regularly the contents of my User Folder, since it is there where 99% of my important content resides... the rest are applications I can reinstall, etc.
However, when analysing my User Folder, I came up with the following sizes
- Music - 16GB
- Pictures - 2GB
- Library - @1GB
- Documents - @1GB
- Movies!!! - 81GB
Now, I don't want to buy an external HD just yet, and also since I'm also protecting against possible theft, if the drive would perhaps also be stolen, so what's the point!. I want to store my files everyonce in a while on some kind of media which I can lock up somewhere.
Music isn't that important since I have all those songs on CDs somewhere else.
Documents, pictures and library can fit onto one DVD, so all I have to do is burn the contents onto a DVD everyonce in a while and I'm good.
The issue I have is with Movies!! Why is the file so big? All I have done are 3 home videos which I added music, etc. and then tranfered to iDVD for creation of menus, etc. Each of these 3 movies individually was burned onto a 4.7GB DVD, so what makes up the other 65GB???
Any ideas as to how to back up these onto a tranferable device such as a DVD? With greater capacity.?
Thanks
J

Hi djkhont, I don't really understand why you wouldn't want to get an external FW drive... hard disks are relatively "very affordable" now... And I may be able to understand your theft problem, as your iMac is in your workplace?
But I mean, why not shop around, I am sure there is some form of protection for your external, just like that are security stuffs to "lock" the macs from being stolen...
The best way and not to loose your hair to back up your entire internal drive, so far, is using SuperDuper! Just get an equivilent or bigger external drive, use SuperDuper to clone/back up your entire main drive, what's more is that this external is bootable, so in the event that your main drive fails, you can still boot up your clone drive and work on it! And when you need to replace your internal disk, you just clone the entire clone drive back to the internal... you do not have to reinstall your OS, your apps etc etc, all the settings etc etc... But make sure you back up regularly, if not you will be cloning back an older content.
This by far is the best, before Mac OS X's Leopard's Time Machine comes along, but for that, you need to have your external drive constantly turn on, at least for SuperDuper! You can manually choose when to back up.
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