The ideal backup strategy

Hi,

I have an existing backup strategy on my server with which I'm relatively happy with. I'm trying to figure out how I add Plone to this strategy. Note that this is a low intensity use intranet (relatively small). I have rsync scripts that I run as a trusted non-root user which I have added to the plone_group in /etc/group.
QUESTION 1: Is this the right approach or is there a more sucure way of doing this? So rsync will periodically copy my var/blobstorage folder to /my-backup-dir.
QUESTION 2: Should I be adding var/filestorage to the list? I believe this is the actual database, similar to the mysql database?
QUESTION 3: Anything else I shoudl be adding to have a full backup of my deployed intranet portal?

Hi,

don't backup the Data.fs file and blobstorage directly. Use https://pypi.python.org/pypi/collective.recipe.backup for that task. And can be configured to backup the database and blobs to your backup folders.