Recovering drivers after disk crash

My hard drive crashed. Fortunately I had a current Time Machine backup which restored all my files. I thought. I had no exclusions in the Time Machine options, so I am sure I did not exclude my drivers, but somehow, they did not restore. I am speaking specifically of my printer and camera drivers, but there may be others I have not discovered. And for some reason, I am unable to reinstall them from the original manufacturer's web site. The Canon camera drivers apparently install, but no luck in iPhoto, it doesn't see the camera. The Brother 5250 drivers are a different matter. For some reason I need to know IP addresses, DNS server names and other stuff to get the driver I downloaded to work. Don't know how and don't know why. It worked before using Snow Leopard.
My question is this, assuming I get my drivers reinstalled somehow (although all suggestions would be welcome), how can I ensure that they get backed up and restored if the crash ever happens again?

RPHarris wrote:
The Apple fix-it folks replaced the disk and installed Snow Leopard. From that point on, I did a full system restore, including using the Snow Leopard disk. I have been using the computer for a few weeks now, so I can't imagine redoing a full system restore makes sense any more.
Oh, no, if it didn't restore that way the first time, it won't now.
Where are the drivers for printers kept anyway? I am not familiar with the Mac system libraries. Maybe I can just find the driver on a really old back up somewhere, or on my other Mac, which has the same drivers, and just copy them over?
Most of the printer stuff seems to be in the maker's folder inside the top-level /Library/Printers folder.
It's very odd that they didn't restore. I don't recall ever seeing that reported here.
You might also want to browse, search, or re-post in the +Printing, Faxing, and Scanning+ forum. There's likely someone there with better info.

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