Macbook - status report

I sent it to them.
They replaced the hard drive and sent it back.
No reasons, no explanations.. not even a "sorry man, shit happens" note.

Oh well.

And yes, they sent me a new HDD and kept the old broken one so I lost everthing I had on my old one. Applications, preferences, settings and some documents/data.

Luckily I'd been using the mac for only abt 2 months and still hadn't migrated to it as my primary system, so I had redundant data/documents/music/pictures etc. So I only lost abt a week's worth of data/documents.

Could have been worse.

Anyway, now I am searchin' for a good backup solution.
For the moment I'm doing a full disk cloning to my external 250 LaCie using SuperDuper. Will probably use the same to do incremental document backups and all.. My SyncBack system for Windows was(is) so good.. Hopefully I'll get something similar up and running.

Maybe I should get another external HDD and set up a RAID system. Is that even possible? I'm paranoid.

I'm following these links.. In case anyone else is interested in BackUps. Remember, IT WILL HAPPEN TO YOU. YOUR HARD DRIVE WILL CRASH. They don't run for ever. Backup and save yourself grief.

Backup solutions for Mac OS - Googled:
http://matt.makalumedia.com/archives/000833.html
http://www.macobserver.com/tmoguides/backup/chapter4.shtml
http://www.digital501.com/2006021110/mac-backup-osx/
http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/13652&mode=info
http://blog.no-panic.at/2006/01/09/my-os-x-backup-strategy/
http://www.decimus.net/synk/
http://www.sitening.com/blog/2006/05/23/how-to-backup-your-mac-intelligently/

The last link is very useful. Even if you do not use what he suggests, his system and description is very good.

Good Luck and Backup.