I have to admit that at this point in time, I'm glad that all of my data that absolutely "must" be backed up fits on a nice 100MB Zip disk (actually it totals about 25MB). The rest of it, such as dowloaded program files and patches (damn windows crap) I download at work, burn to a CD-R or two and bring home to work. That way I'm not spending literally days downloading at home on my pathetic 56k line. Who knows, by the time my install date comes around (March 21st comes around) for ISDN, DSL will finally be available to me. Not likely. Gotta remember, I'm dealing with Qwest.. Shawn jeffr at odeon.net wrote: > > Then you're pretty much stuck. You could spend a lot (more than I want to > figure out) on a tape solution, or you could spend a lot (about $1200 for > that much data using 9.4 gig disks, plus a drive) on some sort of dvd-r > solution each time you do a backup, our you could make another machine > (for about $2000) with a really big raid 5 (400 gigs - 6 maxtor 80 gig > drives and an Escalade 6800) which really only gives you an extra layer of > redundancy, a power problem (you do have a UPS? - not that a UPS will > solve all power problems - yet another expense) could fry all of your > systems, loosing all of your data. > > No matter how you look at it, you'd have to spend a lot to back up that > much data. > > Any word on new techlogies that would make backing up really large amounts > of data fast and cheap? New types of optical storage maybe? > > Jeff