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Backing up huge disk drives

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Since a 27 Gigabyte disk drive costs $169
and a 20 Gigabyte tape drive costs $500
and 20 Gigabyte blank tapes costs $60 each,
the frugal thing to do is

  BUY THREE DISK DRIVES AND BACK UP
  ONTO (HARD) DISK.

Just buy the cradles that let you slide
disks in and out through the front panel
(about $25 each), buy Drive Image software,
and back up onto disk.  Easy.

Advantages:

(1) extremely fast backups
(2) extremely fast and simple restores
(3) low cost compared to tape