Dying drive on my media machine

I suppose this isn't about my AppleTV drive dying, but the drive on the Mac that streams to it. Wanted to clarify.

My media machine has about 10 drives on it. A combo of firewire 400/800 and USB drives. Poor mister raid sits in wait of cleaning out the office...

anyways.. one of the USB drives is going bad. So backups are failing because drives are falling off the chain, and not reliably enough to diagnose. I think it's the new LaCie USB Stark drive, the main storage.. :-/. I haven't diagrammed the order. It took more than a year to write the names of the drives on the drives, and a hint of how to do it from Dr Michael "wave" Johnson.

The big problem is that they're in the office that still is still filled with ants (dead). And it'll take about 12 hours to backup to a new drive, so I have to pull all the other drives, put the new Firewire and old USB on, add UPS, etc.. and then start the backup. And none of this is easy because of my OCD and these fucking ants that I've yet to battle the cleanup on (since it means tossing furniture, a 200lb TV, much more)

Yet, gotta do this before WWDC. I hate doing remote support for my family/own machines. :-)

Then I have to deal with vacuuming the ants, removing the problem stuff, and replacing the furniture. Not sure which is worse.

At least all the purchased media from iTunes is backed up to another volume on another machine.