SharePoint 2010 best practices for Backup and Recovery
- http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/gg266384.aspx
, backup and recovery. - http://social.technet.microsoft.com/wiki/contents/articles/5099.sharepoint-2010-backup-and-recovery-guidelines-en-us.aspx, general backup and recovery guidelines.
- http://social.technet.microsoft.com/wiki/contents/articles/9726.sharepoint-2010-best-practice-when-should-you-back-up-sharepoint-via-sharepoint-central-administration-sca.aspx, discusses when to use SCA to perform backups.
- http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc261687(office.14).aspx , provides good explanation of what get’s
Aryan Nava 
This is part of the the great wiki article over at Technet. I’ve created a Mind map of everything together in one place here:
http://www.sharepointdownunder.com/mind-maps/mind-map-sharepoint-2010-best-practices/