How To Backup Home Dir?

I am wanting to backup my home dir. What is the easiest and most efficient way of backing up my home dir. without having to purchase software of any sort? I want to be able to easily replace my home dir. if I have to do a format and clean install of any sort of OS X and not run into problems of being locked out of my files.
Thanks

There are numerous backup solutions available:
Backup Utilities for OS X
(In the order of my personal ranking)
1. The Restore option of Disk Utility (only for full backups.)
2. Retrospect Desktop (Commercial $129 - not universal binary)
3. Synchronize! Pro X (Shareware $99)
4. Synk 6 (Shareware - 3 versions: Pro $45, Standard $35, Basic $25)
5. Deja Vu (Shareware $25)
6. LaCie SilverKeeper (Freeware - not universal binary.)
7. Carbon Copy Cloner 3.0 Beta (Freeware.)
8. RSyncX and PSyncX (Freeware - GUIs wrapped around Unix tools.)
9. arRsync (Freeware - GUI wrapper on rsync.)
For a good discussion of backup and restore visit The XLab FAQs and read the FAQ on backup and restore strategies.
Except for Retrospect you can download the others from www.versiontracker.com or www.macupdate.com.
You will need backup media. The best solution is to purchase an external Firewire drive equal to or larger than the internal drive. You can then clone your entire system using the Restore option of Disk Utility. Alternatively you can save your backups to DVDs.
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