On Thu, 10 Jan 2008 15:35:04 -0500, "Eisboch"
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For the overwhelming number of home users, having to go to the bank
and get a safe deposit box to swap disks would be enough of an
obstacle to make the plan fail. You can always improve on any backup
system in some way. The worst backup is NO backup, and I hear about
those tragedies all the time. A backup stored onsite is better than
that by a country mile, even though it's not "as good as it gets".

I keep it very simple. There's virtually nothing stored on my computer that
so important that it even needs to be backed up. I've occasionally burned
some CD's with stuff I'd like to keep like pictures or special music, but if
the computer died tomorrow, no big loss.

I also don't have a clue what I'd do with a huge hard drive, internal or
external.

My 3 year old HP laptop has a 90 Gig hard drive. After 3 years 72 Gigs are
still available.

I lost all my photos and still had them backed up on a seperate hard
drive when I had the computer crash last year when the power supply
blew up.

Add insult to injury, I had the photos backed up online and guess what
happened there - the company had a fire and I lost 90% of what I had
backed up online.

When I get around to it, I'm storing everything on hard DVD or CD as
it comes in and I process them - immediately.