One for the MAC users out there.
www.digital501.com has a post about Keeping a Hot Backup of Your Mac Hard Drive
You don’t really understand the importance of backups until your hard drive crashes and you loose a few Gig of data. With most backups, you’ll need to reinstall the operating system and then restore all of your data. OS X comes with a handy tool that will let you create a live copy of your hard drive that can be started up and run just like it is your computer.
We will be covering some more of the Windows options in the next week or two,