How are you backing up data? (Movies, Photos, Music, etc.)

Wondering how people are backing up their photos, home movies, and music.
I personally am starting to run out of hard drive space on my external HD and wondering is just buying hard drives the best way to archive? Currently I have Media Files (photos, home movies, and music) and various documents backed up from my iMac to these three methods:
A: An external drive. My main backup of stuff.
B: I have another External HD which I only use for family photos.
C: About every two months I archive data to DVD's (two copies each) and that goes into the big box in the closet.
D: FTP Started to use FTP for stuff, since I have 100 gigs of online space. But this is really inefficient as my DSL speeds aren't that great. So I have abandoned this option.
Is there any other method you use that I haven't thought of? Something that would last me the next 4-5 years. I know HD DVD is coming, and HD's are getting cheaper daily. But at this rate I will be buying and transfering everytime a new media format comes out.
Cheers.

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