Hi Tom.
How secure is your backup arrangement against protection from a younger member of the family ?!!!
Main HD trashed, so he used the SPARE PC's HD as a replacement (the one I kept backups on). He installed op system, which involved reformatting etc.
I came home and - Ahhhhh!!! - Oh well, no problem, I'll just restore from the DVD that I also keep (less frequent) off-site backups on - only to find it COULDN'T BE READ.
Fortunately I did have some older backups that helped with the restoration, but they were pretty old. The rest has been a hard slog to get back to somewhere close to the setup and data record that I previously had.
Best regards.
Clive.