[ale] quick, simple backup

[AMIT AGRAWAL]

I guess you can use an Internet drive. It is the same cost or cheaper as 
any expensive media and far more reliable. But I don't even do that. I 
hardly have any data so I just take CD backups. 

Check out for pricing on xdrive.com because it has bought most other 
Internet drive sites.

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>Date: Fri, 23 May 2003 22:22:59 -0400
>From: "Bruce Griffis" <griffisb at bellsouth.net>
>Reply-To: <ale at ale.org>
>To: <ale at ale.org>
>Subject: Re: [ale] quick, simple backup
>
>On Friday 23 May 2003 04:59 pm, James P. Kinney III wrote:
>
>> Reusable media is the best bet. A new travan tape drive is only a 
few
>> hundred bucks. Zip drives are OK. CD-RW with a bit of scripting will
>> work well too.
>>
>This is a great topic, and one I've been trying to figure options for, 
for 
>home use. Getting kind of old hacking and re-installing things on a way 
too 
>regular basis.
>
>Anyway - ZIP 750 Mb disks are an option. They were going for about $190 
at 
>Circuit City, and had a $50 mail-in rebate. The Zip 250 is a pretty 
quick and 
>painless solution as well. Maybe the media is more expensive than CD-R, 
but 
>they are re-usable. A ZIP 250 starter kit with 3 zip disks was going 
for appr 
>$140-149 at Circuit City, and had a $20 rebate. Don't quote me on exact 

>numbers - I was on a "pricing Office XP excursion" and nearly choked at 
the 
>price. 
>
>I asked a similar question on the Mandrake news forum, but I was 
looking for a
>
>solution that was portable and could back up my Mandrake box, my wife's 
XP 
>laptop, and my work W2K laptop. Someone suggested an external USB 
attached 
>hard drive.
>
>For home use that might be a viable solution - but I don't know if a 
business 
>would go that way. In the event that the external hard disk became 
toast - 
>you'd lose your backups.
>
>(Cool! I bottom-posted!!! Prolly didn't say anything new or original, 
but at 
>least I bottom posted!)
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