Through the Sharepoint team blog I learned of a new whitepaper titled: "Data protection and recovery for Office SharePoint Server in small to medium deployments".
This is a must read for IT Professionals who need to create a decent backup strategy for their Sharepoint farms. It gives you a good insight in the (im-)possibilities of the Sharepoint backup / restore possibilities. it also covers some other (third party) tools you can use for backupping your farm.