I use RSnapshot and make incremental backups to an external harddrive, and (I know it's not a backup) run my two RAIDs (one for media, one for general data) in mirrored mode.
When I eventually upgrade my home server, I will upgrade from 2x2 2TB drives in RAID1 to four 8TB drives in either RAID5 or 6 - I am still undecided if I am willing to sacrifice 4TB of capacity to the redundancy gods and get an extra harddrive that can fail without data loss in return.