Sharepoint 2007 Backup

Recently I have been looking for different backup options for Sharepoint 2007. You have two options for it:

• Traditional Backup (using Central Admin, Stsadm tool, IIS Metabase backup, File System backup of Custom Assemblies, binaries and code, IIS logs, event logs, home directories, HIVE and many more)
• Using Third Party tools like 'http://www.google.com/search?q=sharepoint+backup'

Central Admin : You can backup the databases from here, but cannot schedule a backup
STSadmin tool: Much more control than the previous one but not much of a granularity
Third Party tools: Provide much granularity upto an item level. But need to shell out lotta of green paper...
This post is not intended to give a detailed explanation of the backup procedure. Its is just a place to find some of the links to the resources.
Joel Oleson as always has a great post here. Things to expect here : What to Backup and what tools to backup?
Technet has an article on the backup plan.
More articles:
http://www.compliancesolutionsgrp.com/blog-content/Practicing%20SharePoint%202007-Backup%20and%20Recovery.pdf
Relationship between IIS Metabase and Configuration Database: http://blogs.msdn.com/joelo/archive/2007/01/02/relationship-between-the-iis-metabase-and-sharepoint-configuration-database.aspx
Backup Sharepoint Search: http://blogs.technet.com/wbaer/archive/2007/03/13/planning-for-disaster-microsoft-office-sharepoint-server-2007-search.aspx
I guess that's it for this friday.....off I go.