Some points to consider when reviewing your backup strategy: http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/poremba/bulletproofing-your-data/?cs=49333Read more... )

Here's a great hand-holding tutorial for folks who want to make their systems more secure using sudo to restrict who's allowed to run what as root: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1132821