How are you doing your backups?

I bought a 3TB WD "My Book" external hard drive that's made for USB 3 so I also bought a Rocketfish USB 3 card with two ports (which works great with my new Samsung Galaxy Note 3 smartphone which also uses USB 3).
 
However, my Acronis boot CD doesn't seem able to read the My Book (and therefore can't backup directly to it unless Windows 7 is running - then it sees the drive correctly - weird).  So...  I backed up a drive with about 500 GB used to another online drive and am now copying the backup file to the external hard drive - but the copy screen is estimating 13(!) hours to do this (averaging about 34+MB per second).  Since I've got two other drives that are larger (including one that's about 1.8 TB) none of this is looking realistic for weekly backups done during the night!
 
I'm going to try to backup another non-OS disk directly to the external (since Acronis seems to see the My Book when I'm in Windows 7), but I'll have to do the same two-step process for the OS disk...
 
This all seems ridiculously slow to me.  I thought things should now blaze with USB 3.0 - not sure why it seems like it's dragging.
 
How are the rest of you doing your backups?

I'm now using Macrium Reflect and it backs up faster than Acronis did.  I don't have any hard figures but what would take Acronis about 20 minutes or so to do a hard drive back up from an SSD with about 80GB of data to an external USB 2.0 hard drive, takes about 15 minutes with Macrium.
 
I have an external USB 3.0 drive and USB 3.0 port on my new PC, but I don't see any substatial faster disk I/O than I do with a USB 2.0 drive and USB 2.0 port.
 
 

I use carbonite to start with (has already saved my butt once and my wifes once)
then I manually copy paste to a NAS drive that's me personally
here at ADK we have a server that backs up nightly to a 2nd set of raid 6 drives
then it backs up to a NAS Raid 6 weekly (using Paragon) then I have an ext drive that's supposed to be a copy of the NAS and taken off site
I forget to swap the one from home with the one here far to frequently.
 
bare in mind the back ups are only as good as the data being backed up. we had a corrupted database and multiple copies of it..
back ups were working.. we had to rebuild it.. not pretty

 I've gone back to hard copies for the main C: partition, I've made 2 complete backups since I upgraded, both on single layer Blu-Ray recordable disks One bootable with the new Acronis demo that took about four hours. One with the free version of paragon that only took just under one hour. Both backups took three disks.
 Acronis use to be my favorite backup program in the early P4 days when there wasn't a lot of choices. I'm pretty disappointed in the demo, they have become what we use to hate about Symantec ghost. Way to many resource hungry process to keep it installed. It actually had a noticeable loss in performance which was verified by a few benchmarks and a .1 reduction in the Win experience index fro HD transfer rate.
 
 So far I'm really impressed with the free version of paragon. I'm also very impressed with backing up to Blu-Ray and consider it the current best way to back up massive amounts of data quickly.
 
For projects, media files and programs, being an old computer tech, I have a lot of old IDE drives laying around. I picked up one of these from ebay http://www.ebay.com/itm/USB-2-0-to-IDE-SATA-S-ATA-2-5-3-5-HD-HDD-Adapter-Cable-/180550148600?pt=US_Drive_Cables_dapters&hash=item2a09a0a1f8
and use those.

I use an external USB2 drive. Backups take about 5 seconds or less for ongoing projects, because I use a batch file and xcopy /d to only copy changed files, and back up each project after I work on them.

I only ever backup my Samples drive when I add a new library.
 
Current projects worked on can easily be dragged & dropped in a matter of minutes
 
And I burn a system image once a week.
 
All this gets rotated to 2 different External HDD's

I haven't used Microsoft Backup in a loooong time, it was quite slow when they introduced it in Vista.
 
I'm using Gobbler to backup Sonar work-in-progress - it's nice to know you can get back to a reasonable point if you're you've gone completely overboard with a project and decide to toss it all.
 
For regular PC backups, I use Retrospect configured to backup the all the PC's in the house to a USB drive. I'm able to restore an entire hard drive to any point in time. I'm partial to Retrospect, because it performs incremental-differential backups and doesn't take over your PC the way Acronis seems to.

HI Friend,
 
Its could be take some time,, because as per you , the copying time is around 13 hours means you have huge amount of data to be copying.So, you have to wait my friend as per me. 

All my computers have a built in data drive where 98% of our files are stored. Pictures, PDF and documents. My DAW is set up the same way. All Projects/ Audio is in the E drive.  I  back up before I shut down with a SAVE AS to the F drive.
For all my computers ( 5) At least once a month I back everything up to a external drive with plain old drag and drop. 
All computers C drives are also partitioned and things like movies and music go there as they are easily restored from other external drives. ( I have a few) 
So my method while not very sophisticated still has everything in multiples.  
A new thing for the last year is I save all my work documents and files to Drop Box. 
I love the way I can use any of my 3 computers and there they all are updated and quickly accessible.   
Once a month I pull the SD cards from our 2 cameras and dump them into at least 3 computers. Then they are also backed up to the external. I also will dump them to my son and daughters computers and they do the same with us.
We never erase the cards now. We pull them once a year and put them away. Cards cost less than a roll of 20 film used to, so why re use them? Now I have to add the damn phones to this routine. 
I have a collection of C and E drives from every computer I ever owned since 2000. I used to upgrade every year as drives were growing quickly back then, First drive was 10 GB as example. Last couple are 250GB. Anyhow there is at least 15 of them including old DAWs.