MBA mid 2011 Backup Strategy

I have a new MacAir (first Mac) and want to figure out an optimal approach to backups.
My plans are:
Use an external 500GB drive (small passport) as a SuperDuper clone drive and make it bootable. I would manually update this drive on a periodic schedule.
Use an external 1TB passport drive (would be my travel drive too) that would contain
Manual TimeMachine Backups
Data files (some to be copied from existing Windows PC)
Photo images
Drive 1 would be for catastrophic system recoveries.
Drive 2 would be for file recovery and data storage.
Is this a reasonable approach?
I read something about TimeMachine eventually taking over a drive. What does that mean?
Thanks
Mike

Mike V's Nano wrote:
My attempts with backup software continues. I just want to do what I do with other backup programs. Do full backup and incremental backups on command. After so many incremental backups do another full backup.
TimeMachine is giving me fits. I did a full backup which took about 2 hours which seems OK. However, I did not catch it in time after the full backup and it started an hourly backup. I thought it would never finish. Once it finished, finally, I turned off TM. The full backup was about 2 hours and the hourly one was over an hour which should have been a minor backup since I was just waiting for it to finish.
In contrast, I did an incremental SuperDuper backup today in less than 10 minutes.
I have been told that I need both. SD for system recovery (which I needed this morning thanks to CUPS-PDF; it worked quite well). And TM for individual files.
I do not need all the overhead that TM has. I just need a simple full/incremental backup program that I can run on demand - one that is fast and quick. SD has a smart incremental backup feature, but I have not looked at how well it works for individual files since it is a clone oriented backup.
Any recommendations for something better than TM?
I guess I need to do some more research.
Thank you for your help.
Mike
I use Carbon Copy Cloner. You may want to give it try. I personally do not do incremental backups. Carbon Copy Cloner makes a full backup the first time and then only backsups files that have been changed or deleted but maintains a full backup and a bootable one. You can get it here:
http://www.bombich.com/download.html
Give it whirl, you may like it . . .

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