What's the difference in "back ups"

Here is a side question: What's the difference, if any, in the files that result from a) an iCal "Back up Database...", b) a sync of iCal to .Mac, and c) a backup created via "Backup"
Austin's comment about keeping a backup made me wonder. I sync and let "Backup" save a file on an external HD so I never consider using iCal's built-in "Back up Database..." to make a regular back up.

Hi DB
The comment on keeping a backup was intended as a reminder that computer data is fragile, and you should have a backup of EVERYTHING - on a different medium. I use Carbon Copy Cloner once a week to a firewire disk, so I can boot from it if necessary.
Some documents are not adequately protected by this - work in progress, typically - and I generally take a copy of such docs to a memory stick at the end of a session working on them.
Some applications - iCal in particular - seem particularly fragile, though I must say it has never lost any data on me. Because I often put little reminders and memos in the events and todos, I could loose a lot of casual stuff if iCal went belly-up, so I make a copy of the calendar files automatically every night (unless I've shut down the computer first!).
I don't use sync and seeing all the problems that people have with it, I am very glad. I suspect that a lot of the problems we see with iCal are in fact caused by calendar files corrupted by syncing, but I have no hard evidence for that.
If you ask iCal to make a backup it lets you choose where to put it, tnen creates a "package" containing a copy of the files from the iCal directory in Application Support. You can see what is in it using the terminal, or by control-click and choose show contents. If you double click on the package it launches iCal to do a restore.
So, I don't know what you get with syncing to .mac; iCal's backup gives an easily-restorable copy of the database (and is probably the best option for novices) and routine backups of your hard disk will give you a copy of, inter alia, iCal's files that can be copied back. If someone doesn't want to automate the process, and doesn't want to take a full disk backup every day, they should at least be letting iCal do a backup every day (or couple of days, depending on activity)
Sorry about the long reply, but with so many people having problems I really think we should emphasise the importance of backup more often.

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