Quote Originally Posted by mlsstl
One other suggestion about a backup. I keep two backups with one of them off-premises. If there were a fire, windstorm or burglary at my home it is easily conceivable that both the server and the backup could be damaged or lost. While I'd have bigger problems to deal with just following that loss, eventually I'd be back to the point where the thought and expense of trying to re-create a 43,000+ song collection would leave me very depressed.

Another $100 for a second backup kept off-premises is pretty cheap insurance. (And it is an option that doesn't even exist for vinyl collectors and is still much more a pain for those who make backup CDs.)
That is a good point... and I forgot to add that I do have a third backup, with my brother on the other end of the island... so it would take quite a lot for me to have start loading from original CDs again...