Media managment nightmare

How are people managing media through various workflows?
I travel alot thus I use a mac laptop to offload my P2 cards on to a bus powered external HDD. When I get back to my hotel I backup to a 600Gb Lacie d2. When back at home I use a 1.2Tb as a main repoitory.
This gives me a potential of 4 locations for my footage (inc Mac Hd). I work using FCP using each of the various drives depending on my location. I also DON'T use the "capture bin" for keeping my footage as I find it far to limiting. I have my own "homebrew" directory so I can quickly locate files without FCP.
SO is there an excepted workflow that keeps all these things in sync without having to move around render files and search for the offline media and the really annoying reseting scratchpads etc.
Thoughs on this would be much appreciated!
Cheers
HVXuser

but it only costs about .50 per card that way, and it's more reliable than disk drives, and serves to backup the shoot more or less permanently. < </div>
Presenting a contrary point of view, the last several magazine articles I've been reading that discuss archiving and backing up are unanimous: hard drives remain the most dependable and stable file storage system. Even with known issues, long-term storage is super-reliable with only minor possibilities of damage that can be repaired or worked around using established data recovery techniques with long histories of success. The read-write-access speeds of hard drives are far superiro to burning optical media, too. Optical media is, by its physical nature, fragile and data loss from surface damage is usually catastrophic, even with checksum-style error protection.
But I'm NOT shooting on a full-blown set on P2s (and I have no desire to ever do so) so whatever you guys come up with that works for you is probably the best thing to share amongst yourselves.
Next year you will be recording 1080 directly to the flash in your 1Tb iPhone while it Bluetooths dailies to your client.
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