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I use an external 250 gig usb drive and dvd drive for backups. I use nero backitup. Not the greatest but came with my dvd drive. THere are other shareware/freeware backup programs out there. Windows backup aint all that bad either for free and probably already installed on your system.
One note in writable dvd's and cd's. They are extremely fragile. I learned a long time ago you can't carry them around in your work bag and expect them to last as long as a factory disc. The scratch real easy and the top surface has a tendency to easily scratch off. I have tried all the brands. Some are a little better than others, but they all will scratch up after a while. So for really important data, burn it and then store it off site if possible in a case or one of those cd envelopes. I have cdrs over 10 years old that were stored in cases and still 100% good.
Maxtor makes a 1 touch drive that you can find onsale for I think under 100. I haven't tried one, but you probably tell it what to back
up and press the button. may be worth looking at.
If cost were no object you could get a nice AIT 3 external tape library. The one I have at work backs up ~700 mb per minute. Backs up everything every day all by itself, change tapes every 6-9 months.
Good luck
Eric
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