Would Like Some Advice/Help on How to Start Backing-Up...

Hey-
I am getting a new MBP 17" for architecture/city planning grad school so I needed a lot that the 17" MBP had. I am not too excited carrying it around campus unless somebody rally turns me on t a nice bag to carry it in.
what I really am here for, because I have never backed up before, is to start learning about backing up. I do not want to pay $100/yr. for MobileMe and I think to use an external drive seems the most practical-except I am really hard on stuff so I would need a heavy duty case. Also, the FW 800 for the CAD program and other 3D programs (forget that, the school pays for those.)
I understand there are basically (minus the DVDs, CDs) 2 main ways to back up and they are archival and clonal. Anybody have any feeling on one way or the other? I am tending to go with the one that will not require another purchase of a program (the clonal system). But as you can tell I have very little experience with this backing up part. what happened to the ones that did not produce tapes which had many if any moving parts? The less moving part in this type of stuff think the better, but who am I you all are saying, hey?
Any help would be appreciated. I am looking for the top of the line headset for the MBP when I am trying to study I need or do better with some good jazz or Blues tune in the background and the speakers for the MBP will be mini ( I saw a small black pair in the Apple Store the other day) and a great ear phones for an iPod for exercise. I am looking at the iPod Classic but I hear it has a moving drive so if that is true, I better look for something else like the Touch. Anybody have trouble with the iPod Classic skipping when they were lifting weights, doing flexibility and some cardio like the Precore elliptical or something not too hard on the joints?
Any recommendations in these areas would be greatly appreciated.
Fondly

Hi One2Two,
For a backup drive I'd be looking at something like THESE in the 750 to 1.5 TB range with the "Quad" interface if you are going to be needing space for CAD files etc .
These are very good enclosures, run cool and quiet (no fan needed). I have several of the equivalent model sold in Australia (under a slightly different name) and they have proved faultless. Very well built, a little larger than some other options, but extremely reliable. I cart one or two of mine around on rough bush roads in the Australian outback fairly regularly (I'm an anthropologist) It is also easy to simply upgrade the internal drive at a later date.
For software, in the first instance, you can't go past SuperDuper - http://www.shirt-pocket.com/SuperDuper/
This lets you create a bootable clone of your HD and then easily update it either manually or through an automated schedule. Probably the most popular backup software amongst the "Level 4's" and "Level5's" on the Apple boards if recent discussions are anything to go by.
Many of us , though , complement it with an additional backup using Apple's own "Time Machine" (which will come free with your computer), either to a second drive, or , a little less safely, on a second partition of the same drive used for SuperDuper.
Time Machine essentially creates a quasi "archival" style backup - letting you revert to earlier versions of files etc over a period determined by your available disc space.
The combination of the two is pretty hard to beat.
The free version of SuperDuper will create your first clone, and you can continue to use it, but the "shareware" version is the one you want. It is not at all expensive and does a brilliant job.
Cheers
Rod

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