Backing up Home PC in 2010, RAID, Blue Ray, NAS?

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Win 7, 64-bit. What is a realistic way to easily backup 40 - 80 gig of data? Data is pics, dig movies, large programming projects, etc. I had a raid which was ok, but then the onboard controller died. I've gone through 2 mirroring externals and I don't think I'd like to have to burn 10+ DVD's everytime I want to backup. Any suggestions?
Oh and we're looking at an i5-750 or i7-860 on the H57 chipset via Dell. This does have a Raid option.
 
The best options for home back up are first an external hard disk then one of the many on-line backup services. If you have important data, then the belt and braces approach is essential.

However, to have the greatest flexibility in restore, you need some software to provide a 'Time Machine' capability. Until recently this was only available on Macintosh machines, but backup specialist Genie has released their 'TimeLine' software. Here is a review of it, and Genie's url:

http://pc-tutorials.suite101.com/article.cfm/an_automatic_backup_solution
http://www.genie-soft.com/products/genie_timeline/default.html

I would not encrypt my backups, if you don't really need to - it is something else to go wrong.

You could also look for the 'versioning' capability in your on-line backup. I think JungleDisk (using Amazon S3) provides this. Also, the on-line backup should only ship over changes to files - not whole files. I think Mozy does do this.
 
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