A much better alternative is backing up to a sparsebundle disk image on an external drive in regular intervals, at least 3 times a week. There are many good application that can automate your backups for you, like for instance SuperDuper! or Carbon Copy Cloner. Peoply that know there way around the Unix terminal can even do this with rsync.
If you ever lose data you can simply open the disk image and recover the files in question from your latest backup, or if your entire system installation gets corrupted (or your computer stolen), you can simply reinstate the entire system by booting to the recovery partition, and in Disk Utility restoring your main hard-drive partition from the latest backup disk image.
Why is this better? Well doing a full recovery from a Time Machine pseudo-backup can take more than 10 hours, whereas simply copying files from a disk image to a local hard-drive will take at best an hour or two for most users.
If you are using Rhino an a Macbook Pro you can use Time Machine on a network drive. This is a better alternative than plugging in a portable drive every so often as the backups go automaticaly.
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(Kyle Houchens - McNeel and Assoc. )
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I just had ANOTHER case of a design consultant calling us to beg for help recovering a file they had lost. They imported a block from an outside source, it corrupted their file and rhino crashed and they lost everything.
cmon folks, whatever faith you choose may save your soul, but only a good backup will save your data.