Film vs Digital...hmmm, guess I don't see much difference. I've shot professionally since the early 70's using 8x10, 4x5, 2 1/4 and 35mm. Conservatively, I've done over 50,000 black and white darkroom prints. I went through Ansel Adams Zone System seminars and studied that technique further in college.

I now shoot with a Canon 7d with top quality lenses and often treat it like a view camera, doing stitched images for very high resolution, at least on my "fine art" stuff. Using Photoshop with a quality calibrated monitor, along with layers and layer masks, then printing on a high quality printer on top notch paper ( I like Canson Baryta which is very similar to an unglossed F surface and even smells like darkroom paper ), I feel that I've never gotten better prints.

From some of my father's railroad negs, mostly shot with a Speed Graphic or a Rolleiflex, I've scanned and printed far better images than I could ever pull in the darkroom, and these are prints I've been selling over and over for 40 years. Digitally produced inkjet prints on poor printers or poor paper suck. Same goes for darkroom prints on cheap enlargers, bad lenses and worn out chemicals! Good technique and excellent equipment makes a huge difference with either method, but I would never want to go back to film and darkroom.

As far as back-ups go, hard drives are no problem, just figure they'll die when they feel like it. I have a duplicate drive backing up daily and a separate drive that I back up to weekly and keep in a separate building. It's not perfect, but fairly safe this way.

Steve