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 > I'm guessing that ultimately we will be backing up to the internet - essentially that will mean that you can pay only for the backup media and the shared costs of the backup infrastructure. I guess I would feel more secure than I do now if I could encrypt my data and then hand it off to someone who would store it on widely separated backup farms (USA, Europe, Australia?). If I were going to do it, I would backup the data for free, and then charge bonzo bucks when someone needed their data back... MooHaaaHaaaHaaa Kent