Question on bricks

I have a soft mod wii 3.4U with BootMII loaded to boot/2, I have also backed up my wii system to an SD card. WII currently boots to the bootmii menu.

What things can brick my wii to an unfixable state? Or does the bootmii and backup help prevent bricking/

If you have a NAND flash backup (basically a backup of your System Menu and IOS'), you're fine. When your Wii is "bricked", it's not a hardware or boot problem. Your "OS" is corrupted. That's why you back up your NAND, it's essentially a backup of the Wii OS' current state.

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If you have a NAND flash backup (basically a backup of your System Menu and IOS'), you're fine. When your Wii is "bricked", it's not a hardware or boot problem. Your "OS" is corrupted. That's why you back up your NAND, it's essentially a backup of the Wii OS' current state.

Ummm... If you are bricked it can be a low-level (boot) failure or a hardware failure.

Brick= your wii has the function of a brick. (the thing houses are built with)

Basically, the only thing that can brick you irrecoverably now is a failed boot2 update. If you are on 4.2, or 4.1 updated from NSMB (i.e. you have boot2v4) you have nothing to worry about as that is the latest version of boot2 at the moment. And anyway the chances of a boot2 update failing are about 1 in 100000 or something like that. So basically, you are pretty much totally safe. No homebrew other than HackMii Installer touches boot2, and official updates to boot2 are reasonably safe.

I do not have 4.1 or 4.2 I am running boot/2 on a 3.4U system am I still safe?

It's generally impossible to brick at a low-level (boot2) unless you get a power outage or power surge and your Wii goes out while modifying boot2. Otherwise it's almost always a problem with the System Menu,

You should be absoulutely fine. Even when doing a boot2 update, the brick risk is only like 1 in 100000, IF the power goes out (i think...), so very slim chance. And if you dont do a boot2 update (theres no need to really, it can be worked around to allow you to do anything without it), theres no chance of an irrecoverable brick.