Best practices: Looking for advice

My imac has a 750GB HD. Today I have received what took me a while to decide on as teh best separtae backup drive - I got myself the 1TB Guardian by Newertech. Here is how I propose to keep my files backed up and wanted to know if this makes sense or not. The "bulk" of my files consist of various MS Office types, iTunes library (music and video - biggest collection at around 250GB currently), raw video footage from my DV camera and some odds and ends from iPhoto and iWeb. FWIW, not all but the majority of my "best of" photographs are also backed up with Zenfolio. I haev also started to backup "offsite" with Jungel disk - what I have done thus far is to backup "My Docs" folder and "iTunes Library". That all being said, here is my question:
Am I ok to take my iTunes library, iphot library and My Documents and copy to Guardian drive or should I use that drive with Time Machine an dlet it "do its thing"? Thanks.
Steve

There are lots of different backup strategies but what works best for you depends upon your needs. Personally, I create a bootable clone of my drive then I do incremental backups of the clone on a regular schedule with backup software. If ever my main drive goes bad I can simply erase it and restore from my bootable clone. This is satisfactory for my needs. However, other users may need to maintain archives of changed files in the event they need to restore an older version of a file rather than the current version. A different type of backup is required for this; one in which the backup software archives all changed files rather than replacing them with newer versions. This is the type of backup that Time Machine does. However, TM cannot create a bootable backup.
I can't tell you what is the best strategy for your needs, but there are many options open to you. It's important that you consider all of them before making a choice since it takes a lot of time to start over.
Backup Software Recommendations
My personal recommendations are (order is not significant):
1. Retrospect Desktop (Commercial - not yet universal binary)
2. Synchronize! Pro X (Commercial)
3. Synk (Backup, Standard, or Pro)
4. Deja Vu (Shareware)
5. Carbon Copy Cloner (Freeware)
6. SuperDuper! (Commercial)
7. Intego Personal Backup (Commercial)
8. Data Backup (Commercial)
The following utilities can also be used for backup, but cannot create bootable clones:
1. Backup (requires a .Mac account with Apple both to get the software and to use it.)
2. Toast
3. Impression
4. arRSync
Apple's Backup is a full backup tool capable of also backing up across multiple media such as CD/DVD. However, it cannot create bootable backups. It is primarily an "archiving" utility as are the other two.
Impression and Toast are disk image based backups, only. Particularly useful if you need to backup to CD/DVD across multiple media.
Visit The XLab FAQs and read the FAQs on maintenance, optimization, virus protection, and backup and restore. Also read How to Back Up and Restore Your Files.

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