How do I find out or know if everything is backed up before I upgrade to ios 6?

before I update to ios6 how can I make triple sure that all my music, photos, contacts, notes, and messages are all backed up? in settings I have my iPhone 4 programmed to back up to the iCloud - but how do I know for sure that everything is there? I am hearing horror stories of people losing everything - doesn't everyone back up to the cloud? please help :)

Check the date and time of your latest backup in Settings > iCloud > Storage & Backup > Manage Storage. Make also a local backup via iTunes, and safe your music, photos and videos etc. manually on your Mac because they are not backed up via iCloud (only photos of your camera roll are backed up).

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