Do you backup your iMovie Events folder?

I don't because it's huge, and I figure, I could always just re-import the original AVCHD footage. For example, my Events folder is 1.1TB and it would cripple my Time Machine backup disk.
I do backup my iMovie and iDVD Projects, however.
A few questions:
- do you back yours up?
- should I?
- if/when I do need to re-import something (maybe need to re-edit a project I did last year), will my iMovie Project be able to find the newly imported events? As long, I guess, as I use the same Event name?

My Events folder spans several external drives.
For the AVCHD events, I just back up the archive file or disk image, but I do not back up the Event.
I have some DV, 8MM, and VHS events, that I would really prefer not to have to capture again, so I back these up.
See [this post|http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=12472813&#12472813] for more on how I back up.
Note: I do not use Time Machine, but I think it is a great idea to use Time Machine, especially for your Project files. The reason I do not use it is it used to be very slow and crashed a lot. However, I found that this was not the fault of Time Machine at all. I had a failing internal disk drive, so Time Machine could never finish. I will add Time Machine to the mix soon.

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