Another vote
for Acronis True Image. It's a true backup situation like Norton Ghost, but with modern interface and no Norton delusions of grandeur. For those not quite keeping up with the concept, these two programs make a disk image onto another hard drive. If there is some kind of system disaster, like a software snafu, you can just restore the image from the backup to your primary boot drive. This restores all installed programs, system settings, fonts, SH4 save games, etc, basically puts you back in business without requiring any new installs of software. My 320 gig HD takes about 5 hours to make the image of both Windows and Kubuntu, so I just do it at night and forget about it.
Beware of depending on RAID. It instantly copies a disaster on one disk to the other, leaving you with two bad drives. RAID is for hardware security or speed but is not a backup solution.
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