Is there a difference between Time Machine & Backup

I just bought a new MacBook running Leopard, I had Backup and still do and now I have Time Machine. I have a G Drive 250 GB external hard drive. Which app should I be using Time Machine or Backup?
Is one better then the other? do they work in conjuction with each other?
The reason I ask is my girlfriends kitten spilled a glass of water on my old (6 months) MacBook and fortunately the friendly folks at my local apple store were apple to retrieve all my info off of my hard drive. Going forward I want to make sure I'm better prepared backing things up.
Any feed back, suggestions, advice, help would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks in advance.

Try this: http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=307050

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