Keeping it safe

Hi all,
I'm a busy bee, always on the go working on my MacBook. I love the thing, while it's 'just' a machine...
My question is this: how do I make sure that when I get home, all my data is backed up every day in an
1) easy,
2) fast and
3) reliable way?
I've got an Airport Extreme and a 500Gb disk connected to it. Now I'd like a friendly way to synchronize all the data on the laptop each day, as a ghost or whatever, I don't care.
I want to take into account that one day, my MacBook will get stolen, because it's a very nice thing to steal. I'm not fully prepared, I have to admit.

I use Tri-Backup...
http://www.tri-edre.com/english/index.html
Has a function to do the automatically do the Backup when a certain Server/Share Mounts... never ever fails.
Can't say enough good about Tri-Backup.

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