> 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!
I do that, but it doesn't make for a storage medium I can easily use on
another system. The cost of DVD writers is coming down, and non-magnetic
media may have some advantages as well. Still, thay're small compared to
disk sizes.
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