The importance of backing up

I've been on a soapbox about this before, but for the second time in the past month my backups have saved me.

About a month ago the server where I store my remote backups went down with a thud and I lost the 150 or so gigs of images that were stored there.  That one was easy since I was able to restore the backup set off of the active file. 

Earlier this week my web development server decided to crash, and since I'm sitting here watching it copy files waiting to be able to reinstall Ubuntu with nothing else to do I figured I'd throw up a post about it.  This time it was my active files that were lost so I'm having to restore a backup set to the active set.  Fortunately I keep 3 copies of my files - an active set, a local backup set on USB drives, and a remote set about 150 miles away.
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I just charged a guy $500 to recover about 100meg of  files he should have backed up. I got them, he was lucky. (The places that recover charge something like $50 per kilobyte)

I burn all my Raw Images to DVD and store them in "yet another" fireproof box. All of the "Keepers" in jpg format are on a USB drive that stays in my backpack (wheelchair, so I always have the backpack "on")


backing up is only part of it, If you can't restore the files you are in just as much trouble.
How many of you have actually done a mock restore? randomly pic a file and retrieve it from your backups?
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