Time Machine in Lion, alternatives sought

Since upgrading to Lion my confidence in Time Machine has been diminishing rapiudly. I had been backing up to an Iomega IX2-200 for some time without any ussues when running Time machine in Snow Leopard.
The first issue with Lion was the change in authentication that seemed to catch all the NAS vendors by surprise, the impact of which was zero access to existing TM backups, zero ability to use TM for backups. I had to resort to a new TM backup on a USB drive.
We were told that we ought to be able to resume TM to NAS once the vendors got around to releasing new firmware. Iomega duly did but TM refused to pick up where it left off and ran a full backup instead. Goodbye backup history. Now ever few days TM pukes up this message:
What this means is: to improve reliability TM must start again. From scratch, with a total loss of historical backups. Every few days.
This strikes me as ironic because I always thought that the point of a backup was to provide a point of recovery if something happens to your primary data. With TM and Lion it appears that the opposite is true, my production data is the much-needed backup for my backup.
So folks, what are the alternatives to Time Machine? Can somebody please provide recommendations based upon first hand experience of non-Apple backup software for Macs, preferably something that can sustain incremental backups for a decent period of time. Restore performance isn't important to me, but the reliability and integrity of the backup are paramount.

I hate Time Machine. I prefer to make a regular bootable clone of my entire hard drive, using the excellent Carbon Copy Cloner, which is free (although if you like it, you can make a donation).
The advantage of a bootable clone is that it is an exact copy of absolutely everything that is on your main hard drive, and I do mean *everything*.
This means that you can not only have a complete backup of all your stuff; it also means that if your main computer drive hits trouble, you can start the computer from the clone, and resolve the problem or even copy the entire clone back to your main drive.
To begin, explore the CCC website for a while, then download the software and try it. Your first clone will take a long time because it's new, but after that your clones will be incremental and should only take about 10-15 minutes.
As an alternative to CCC there's also SuperDuper but I don't know anything about it. I'm happy with CCC.
BTW a Firewire connection from your computer to your external drive is better than USB because Firewire is faster.

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    Mar 13 22:30:30 Gareth-Hillarys-MacBook-Pro WindowServer[98]: kCGErrorFailure: Set a breakpoint @ CGErrorBreakpoint() to catch errors as they are logged.
    Mar 13 22:30:32 Gareth-Hillarys-MacBook-Pro SophosAutoUpdate[56]: WARNING: The sun_len field of a sockaddr_un structure passed to CFSocketSetAddress was not set correctly using the SUN_LEN macro.
    Mar 13 22:30:36: --- last message repeated 1 time ---
    Mar 13 22:30:36 Gareth-Hillarys-MacBook-Pro mds[37]: (Normal) Permissions: perm store dirty count exceeded rebuilding
    Mar 13 22:30:40 Gareth-Hillarys-MacBook-Pro com.apple.mtmfs[35]: /var/folders/zz/zyxvpxvq6csfxvn_n0000000000000/T//mtmfsMap35
    Mar 13 22:31:25 Gareth-Hillarys-MacBook-Pro InterCheck[55]: WARNING: The sun_len field of a sockaddr_un structure passed to CFSocketSetAddress was not set correctly using the SUN_LEN macro.
    Mar 13 22:32:28: --- last message repeated 1 time ---
    Mar 13 22:33:03 Gareth-Hillarys-MacBook-Pro mdworker[141]: (Error) ImportPluginLoading: Couldn't load plugin 'Spotlight/Thunderbird.mdimporter/ -- file://localhost/Applications/Thunderbird.app/Contents/Library/'
    Mar 13 22:33:26 Gareth-Hillarys-MacBook-Pro SecurityAgent[119]: User info context values set for garethhillary
    Mar 13 22:33:27 Gareth-Hillarys-MacBook-Pro SecurityAgent[119]: Login Window login proceeding
    Mar 13 22:33:28 Gareth-Hillarys-MacBook-Pro loginwindow[40]: Login Window - Returned from Security Agent
    Mar 13 22:33:28 Gareth-Hillarys-MacBook-Pro loginwindow[40]: USER_PROCESS: 40 console
    Mar 13 22:33:28 Gareth-Hillarys-MacBook-Pro airportd[151]: _doAutoJoin: Already associated to “Badger_Sett”. Bailing on auto-join.
    Mar 13 22:33:28 Gareth-Hillarys-MacBook-Pro com.apple.launchd.peruser.501[139] (com.apple.ReportCrash): Falling back to default Mach exception handler. Could not find: com.apple.ReportCrash.Self
    Mar 13 22:33:28 Gareth-Hillarys-MacBook-Pro com.apple.launchctl.Aqua[152]: load: option requires an argument -- D
    Mar 13 22:33:28 Gareth-Hillarys-MacBook-Pro com.apple.launchctl.Aqua[152]: usage: launchctl load [-wF] [-D <user|local|network|system|all>] paths...
    Mar 13 22:33:30 Gareth-Hillarys-MacBook-Pro com.apple.launchd.peruser.501[139] (com.apple.launchctl.Aqua[152]): Exited with code: 1
    Mar 13 22:33:30 Gareth-Hillarys-MacBook-Pro UserEventAgent[11]: CaptiveNetworkSupport:CNSServerRegisterUserAgent:187 new user agent port: 21255
    Mar 13 22:33:35 Gareth-Hillarys-MacBook-Pro com.apple.dock.extra[183]: Could not connect the action buttonPressed: to target of class NSApplication
    Mar 13 22:33:35 Gareth-Hillarys-MacBook-Pro com.apple.dock.extra[183]: 2012-03-13 22:33:35.187 com.apple.dock.extra[183:1707] Could not connect the action buttonPressed: to target of class NSApplication
    Mar 13 22:33:35 Gareth-Hillarys-MacBook-Pro com.apple.dock.extra[183]: Could not connect the action buttonPressed: to target of class NSApplication
    Mar 13 22:33:35 Gareth-Hillarys-MacBook-Pro com.apple.dock.extra[183]: 2012-03-13 22:33:35.228 com.apple.dock.extra[183:1707] Could not connect the action buttonPressed: to target of class NSApplication
    Mar 13 22:33:35 Gareth-Hillarys-MacBook-Pro com.apple.dock.extra[183]: Could not connect the action buttonPressed: to target of class NSApplication
    Mar 13 22:33:35 Gareth-Hillarys-MacBook-Pro com.apple.dock.extra[183]: 2012-03-13 22:33:35.230 com.apple.dock.extra[183:1707] Could not connect the action buttonPressed: to target of class NSApplication
    Mar 13 22:33:35 Gareth-Hillarys-MacBook-Pro com.apple.dock.extra[183]: Could not connect the action buttonPressed: to target of class NSApplication
    Mar 13 22:33:35 Gareth-Hillarys-MacBook-Pro com.apple.dock.extra[183]: 2012-03-13 22:33:35.231 com.apple.dock.extra[183:1707] Could not connect the action buttonPressed: to target of class NSApplication
    Mar 13 22:33:37 Gareth-Hillarys-MacBook-Pro Mail[162]: Using V2 Layout
    Mar 13 22:34:01 Gareth-Hillarys-MacBook-Pro iTunes[164]: The plugin 'Quartz Composer Visualizer' failed to load because it has the wrong CPU architecture for this version of iTunes. (3585)
    Mar 13 22:34:20 Gareth-Hillarys-MacBook-Pro [0x0-0xd00d].com.apple.iTunes[164]: Version from driver for Certificates 1
    Mar 13 22:34:30 Gareth-Hillarys-MacBook-Pro com.apple.launchd.peruser.501[139] ([email protected][226]): Exited with code: 1
    Mar 13 22:34:34 Gareth-Hillarys-MacBook-Pro mtmfs[35]: long message send to mtmd: 5.001044 seconds
    Mar 13 22:34:52 Gareth-Hillarys-MacBook-Pro installd[276]: Starting
    Mar 13 22:34:52 Gareth-Hillarys-MacBook-Pro installd[276]: uid=0, euid=0
    Mar 13 22:35:22 Gareth-Hillarys-MacBook-Pro installd[276]: Exiting.
    Step 2 kernel.log
    Mar 13 20:37:28 Gareth-Hillarys-MacBook-Pro kernel[0]: IOSurface: buffer allocation size is zero
    Mar 13 20:38:14: --- last message repeated 1 time ---
    Mar 13 21:17:55 Gareth-Hillarys-MacBook-Pro kernel[0]: (default pager): [KERNEL]: ps_select_segment - send HI_WAT_ALERT
    Mar 13 21:17:55 Gareth-Hillarys-MacBook-Pro kernel[0]: macx_swapon SUCCESS
    Mar 13 21:25:02 Gareth-Hillarys-MacBook-Pro kernel[0]: nspace-handler-set-snapshot-time: 1331673904
    Mar 13 21:25:33 Gareth-Hillarys-MacBook-Pro kernel[0]: IOSurface: buffer allocation size is zero
    Mar 13 22:30:10 localhost kernel[0]: PMAP: PCID enabled
    Mar 13 22:30:10 localhost kernel[0]: Darwin Kernel Version 11.3.0: Thu Jan 12 18:47:41 PST 2012; root:xnu-1699.24.23~1/RELEASE_X86_64
    Mar 13 22:30:10 localhost kernel[0]: vm_page_bootstrap: 987436 free pages and 52948 wired pages
    etc etc...
    Step 3 System Diag reports
    Nothing present, I dont think the system has time to write a report because it has become completely bogged by this problem.
    If you can shed any light on this I'd be really grateful. The thing I spotted right before the crash is the following line
    (Error) Volume: Could not find requested backup type:1 for volume
    Look forward to hearing from you
    GJH

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