New LaCie bigdisk extreme+ do I use TimeMachine or incl.software?

I had immediately started using LaCie two weeks ago with TimeMachine. Today, I finally opened up the material included with drive, and found a Shortcut and Retrospect software CD and another entitled d2Storage Utilities, that mentions LaCie Click Backup Software, Silverkeeper backup software.. Do I just stick with TimeMachine to do backups? Is there any value of either using any of this other backup software or even loading on to my HD, or will I end up being totally confused with different backup mechanisms and as to whether TM is more user friendly, but may not do as good of a job backing up? I do understand that there are ,according to forums, the odd glitches that appear with the use of TM, but I thought that maybe until I encountered a problem with TM, I would just continue as is. Thank you for perhaps guiding me to the correct solution .

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I would keep using Time Machine. It is +set it and forget it+ (until you need it) type of software. Other backup software may be fine and have more features, but there is more work involved in using it, so most users end up not using it.
If you want to protect yourself beyond Time Machine, you should use a cloning utility to duplicate your entire hard drive once a month or so. Clone it to another external drive or a separate partition on another drive. It won't be backed up to the last hour like Time Machine, but the clone will give you a fairly recent bootable duplicate, in addition to your Time Machine backup.

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