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Another advantage to this system: a hard drive used only for backups seems
less likely to fail than a tape drive. I once had a tape drive eat the
backup tape during a critical restore, forcing me to redo my tax returns
from scratch.
> 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
>
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