WD My Book 500GB Home Edition: backup plan

Taxes came back!! Sweet! After discussing with the wife why it might be good to backup her 20,000+ pics, I was given the okay. Yes it's over 20 Thousand pictures. Thank God for digital. I think we still have about 100 rolls of film to develop before they die, but that's another dilemma. This is how I solved my current dilemma.

Introducing the Western Digital My Book Home Edition. It's an external Hard Drive. A pretty good one. It's technically a  500GB SATA drive. We purchased it from Costco for $129.  It comes with some software. A program called WD anywhere backup, which I found less than useful. It didn't have enough features for me and my circumstances. It also comes with some Google software you could just download from the net. Again basically useless.

My current configuration is a 36GB OS drive and a 160GB data drive. I don't save anything to the OS drive, it's just the OS and programs. All data goes to the Data drive so I don't have to worry about my data when I need to do major config changes to the OS. The My Book comes pre-formatted to FAT 32, so that was a problem. Solution= reformat it to NTFS. I chose to use Windows XP pro backup utility. First I did a backup of the DATA drive and then I used the utility to do incremental backups daily at 10 pm.

So nothing fancy. Will it work, I believe so. Should I have a backup plan offsite, probably.  Wish me luck, now back to that College Algebra.