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tadams-lists@myrealbox.com (Trever L. Adams)  wrote on 29.09.02 in <1033316012.1326.17.camel@aurora.localdomain>:

> I can play with that doesnt' have so much important data on it.  (I hate
> to say it, but I haven't been able to afford, $$ wise, backup for a few
> years... I know... I can't afford not to either).

Tape drive cost?

One idea we've come up (and surely we're not the only ones) is to use  
cheap IDE disks for backup, possibly in a cold-swappable insert. As long  
as you can keep several backups per disk (say using some of those 100GB  
disks), preferrably even on a different machine, that's fairly cheap.

If you want to keep daily backups for a week, weekly for a year, and all  
on separate media, of course, that's *not* cheap with this method, and  
even DLT or similar prices become acceptable in comparision. But it  
certainly beats *no* backup!

MfG Kai
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