Media Manager Back Up Issue

Hi,
I have nearly finished project: a 30 minute documentary and 4 short variants (DV PAL) that I want to create a full media back up on a 1TB Lacie firewire drive to take off site in case of the worst possible scenario over Christmas and New Year and our offices flood/have a fire (hope I'm not tempting fate here...)
I created a new sequence and edited all four sequences into this one new sequence. I did this, because some of the short films use most of the same media as used in the main film, and I didn't want to duplicate the media unnecessarily by using the MM to copy each sequence separately. I have given the duplicated items 1:00:00 handles.
My first question is, is my strategy the best way of doing this? I don't have room to duplicate all the media, which is sitting on several different drives (70 one hour DV tapes were digitised to create this project). I don't have any other digital media back up at present - only the original tapes - although I back up the .fcp files each day on top of autosaves on different drives.
Whilst the sequence was copying through the MM, a drive became disconnected and FCP locked up. I had to force quit and wonder (assuming the above strategy is OK) whether I have to start the whole process again ditching what I've already copied, even though half the back up MM project is already there on my 1TB drive. I can't think of a way I can export using the media manager from 'where I left off'.
Any help gratefully received.
Cheers,
Ant

I've tried all the available options, including archive and install and then erase and install, however, when I tried to erase got the following message:
'volume erase failed: could not unmount disk'
I have tried unmounting in disk utility to no avail. Does anybody have any suggestions or should I visit the apple store ( I have no protection plan)?
Is the hard drive shot, even though I was able to access it in target mode to drag and drop my user folders on to an external hd?

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