Is There A Preferred Method for Backing Up Source Video?

Having put together my first movies (using both iMovie 06 and 08), I am staring at several gigs of video clips on my hard drive that I would like to archive off. But I don't quite know what to do to be sure that I am storing the original source clips (in case I want to re-edit at some later date).
I see that the clips are stored on the drive in iMovie packages; should I just copy these off to remote media? How compatible are these packages with other programs? Are the packages readable under other operating systems? Should I back up the clip files only?
TIA,
David

As I noted in my original post, I used both 06 and 08, due to a complicated set of circumstances that I won't go into here. Winston seems to be saying that I should copy the source files directly off the camera to DVD, which supports my original question. I will have to figure out how to do this. I presume I will plug the camera into the computer, and then use Finder to burn the files directly to DVD.
So far, I have made copies (both to DVD and network drive) of the 08 events, 06 projects, iDVD project file, the iDVD archive, and the iDVD img. All of which is why I was asking the question in the first place.
Thanks all for the help,
David

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