hello:
food for thought:
hard drives have gotten so large that removable media back-ups are really obsolete and insanely time consuming.
I highly suggest you invest in a spare drive; from there you can keep updaing your clone or image files and thats the most cost effective way too! for about $50.00 on ebay you can get 250 gig drives.
gosh; when I gave up on the imaging to DVD disks becasue it literally took days to span across 15 DVD disks to back-up a 160 gig drive! YUCK and do think about doing that every two weeks >>>> no thanks
you can very cost effectively install a cheap 250 gig IDE drive into an external hard drive enclosure then do this
http://www.techsupportforum.com/arti...ard-drive.html
the trick to good back up plan is spending literally little time to perform the routine back-up and spend minimal time restoring from a back-up
the fastest is the cloned second drive; if you get a crashing boot drive then change your boot order and boot into the "other cloned" boot drive = no time lost
if I failed to address your concerns; please let me know