Let me warn you first, though: There's no point having a backup plan if you don't also have a restore plan. Make one and test it. Be sure you can get your data back out in a reasonable amount of time.
AMEN!
Also, make sure that the people who take over for you while you go on study abroad are able to maintain the system and move your backups to recordable media or responsibly delete them. I set up a cron rsync system before going to France and the week before I came back the system suffered an operator error data loss. It turns out the guy who was supposed to replace me, but had since moved on, turned off the system three months earlier without telling anyone because he was tired of managing the backup data.
I also recommend feeding rsyn outputs into a text file web directory. That way you can just pop open the URL to see what was copied, when.
-Jeremy
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