hi aposhark, for me ,i only need it simple, not too worried of loosing anything should my comp go down, my most important is that i save my messages between my lady and myself,
within the 1st week of buying my lap top, i made rescue discs,using my computers inbuilt rescue program,
there are restore points auto set to do this ,if any changes, new programs ect ,
i dont back up anything regular, but i do have an external hard drive,i use.
i hear of something called clic free , which automaticaly backs up your files onto an external hard drive, it may be a hard drive that comes with it, not sure