I've been using this system for a while now and it's working out very well for me.

While the description is fairly lengthy, it's 'cause I've itemized every single step... the process is pretty darn simple. More importantly it's a very inexpensive (if you don't have the software and portable USB drive it might set you back $60-$70 or so) while at the same time being a truly ironclad solution which takes advantage of multiple copies, off site storage, onsite/offsite archival and DVD verification/renewal.

Here are the steps:

Photos and Videos backup procedure

Required hardware:

1. One portable usb drive, preferably 8Gb or larger
2. One DVD burner
3. Two computers: your workstation and another offsite workstation (for instance your work PC, but it could be your brother's PC if he lets you use a few GBs of his hard drive and you visit fairly often - and yes syncbackse can be configured to encrypt the files that are backed up if that's a concern)

Required software:

1. SyncbackSE (www.2brightsparks.com)
2. Outlook, Palm Desktop or other calendar software
3. DVD burning software

Initial Setup Steps:

1. Create a folder called MyPhotos
2. Under MyPhotos create a folder called Ingested
3. Under MyPhotos create a folder called New
4. On your photo workstation, set up a syncback se profile to do a FAST BACKUP from your "MyPhotos\New" folder to a MyPhotos_New\ folder on your portable USB drive
5. On your work workstation, set up a syncback se profile to do a FAST BACKUP from your USB's MyPhotos_New\ folder to a folder such as "C:\MyPhotosBackup"

The above two syncbackse profiles should be set to run automatically on your photo workstation and work workstation any time the usb drive is plugged in.

When you're done with a shoot:

1. Copy all photos to the MyPhotos\Ingested folder from the camera memory card
2. Open bridge (or your other preferred app), delete bad photos, do any labeling/rating etc
3. Move the photos from MyPhotos\Ingested to MyPhotos\New
4. Plug USB drive into PC -> syncback will automagically backup the new photos onto your drive.
5. Unplug USB drive and put it back into pocket... next time you're @ the office you'll plug it in and sync the backup to your work PC.
6. Delete photos in memory card, put card back into camera, ready for next shoot. At this point you'll have your photos in 2 places: your PC and your USB drive. USB drive is assumed to always be with you, not stay on your desk. Once you plug USB drive into PC at work, you will have photos in 3 places, including one offsite.

Every so often:

1. Check size of MyPhotos\New folder.
2. If size is approaching or over 4Gb then: (if it's not, then skip the rest of the instructions)
3. Create a new folder, call it MyPhotos\Bucket01 (next time it'll be Bucket02, and on and on)
4. Move 4Gb worth of photos (starting from the oldest) from your MyPhotos\New folder into the Bucket01 folder
5. Fire up your DVD Burning software, and burn the whole folder onto two DVDs (two copies of same stuff).
6. Label one DVD with today's date and the name Bucket01A, the other with today's date and Bucket02 ... also include the from/to dates for the photos (the date of hte earliest and the latest... this will be helpful for locating photos in a distant future)
7. Fire up Palm Desktop, Outlook, or your other choice Calendar application. Go to Next year today, enter an appointment set to repeat every 4 years, name it "Check DVD Bucket01A". Go to the following year today, enter another appointment set to repeat every 4 years, name it "Check DVD Bucket01B". Go to the following year today, enter a third event repeating every 4 years, call it "REPLACE DVD Bucket01A" and finally go forward yet another year and enter a fourth event repeating every 4 years, call it "REPLACE DVD Bucket01B"
8. Bring the B disk to your office for safe storage

That's it.
Ironclad security for your photos, inexpensive onsite/offsite solution with instant access to your whole library

If you want to be fancy you can create index contact sheets for the DVDs as well so that if you're ever looking for a photo you can find it easily.