Hi,
I had problems getting all my backups complete, compressed and in every way handled so I knew everything was backed up correctly.
For a full Sharepoint (WSS 3.0 & MOSS 2007) restore I needed: SP Databases, 12-hive and IIS Metadata. So I created one Windows Powershell script that could be configured to all these things and configured with a XML file and made it available for free at www.codeplex.com/spbackup
I hope this can help some of you Sharepoint administrators out there too :)
Best regards
Jesper M. Christensen
Blog: http://jespermchristensen.spaces.live.com
LinkedIN: http://www.linkedin.com/in/jespermchristensen