What to Backup & what will happen to Boot Camp before I Upgrade??

Hi guys,
I am going to buy the $29 Snow Leopard Upgrade for my MacBook Pro 13" once it is available which is soon
My MBP is 2-3 weeks old so i don't need a CLEAN install (Wipe and install) so an Upgrade will do
but what shall i backup else than my Music, Documents & Pictures??? do I need to backup any other folders??? (Applications, Library, System...etc) or everything will stay as it is?? i am new to the Mac and specially to just an Upgrade!!
and one more question... I have a Boot Camp partition as well, will the upgrade keep it or will it affect the partition???
Thank you so much and enjoy your Snow Leopard
Sul

An external disk, at least as large as your internal drive, is your best friend when dealing with updates of any sort on a Mac. Just backup to that disk, and you can stop worrying about what happens. I like SuperDuper for this, others like CarbonCopyCloner. For my purposes, TIme Machine won't do, as I want a bootable backup.
If anything bad happens you can either boot from the external to fix things up, or restore the external to your internal disk, and be right back where you started. Think of it as a safety net.
I also back up important data from my laptop to my desktop, as well as to DVD. Probably unnecessary, but it gives me peace of mind.
Went for a straight "upgrade" this afternoon. So far so good. Not noticing any odd hardware behaviour (yet). If I do, I'll wipe and reinstall "clean", then use Migration Assistant to pull my home directory and certain applications over. Good thing it's Friday, and the whole weekend is ahead to play, eh? =)

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