"Gene Kearns" wrote in message
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On Mon, 18 Jul 2005 20:21:08 GMT, "Doug Kanter"
wrote:

If your data has absolutely no monetary value, that's a very bad idea for
a
number of reasons.

"Bill McKee" wrote in message
thlink.net...
Put a 2nd as big disk in and just back up to it.

"Doug Kanter" wrote in message
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Full backup once a week, incrementals every night.





1) Do you second Acronis

2) What media do you back-up *to*?

First - my last sentence was stupid - should've read "If your data HAS
monetary value". :-) Duh.

1) Never used Acronix. I use a Seagate product that I've had for years. Used
to be a Symantec thing that the company abandoned for no particularly good
reason.

2) I back up to a tape drive. 4 tapes:

Two tapes are used on alternating days for the incremental backups. This
way, if one goes bad, I only lose a day's worth of data.

Two tapes are used for the full backups. One is always in a safe deposit box
two minutes from the house, and is swapped with the next one the following
week. The one in the house lives in a fire safe until it leaves for the
bank.