| Backup too Cheap to Ignore
Hi folks,
I just picked up a Western Digital My Book Essential Edition 500 GB external hard drive. It was a hundred bucks on sale at Dell (I don't know if it's still available for this price, but it's not far off that in a lot of places).
One half terabyte of storage for a hundred bucks.
At this price a person would have to be pretty desperate not to have data backup.
I chose to reformat it to NTFS, then manage my backups as simple file copies (I scheduled a batch file with XCOPY commands, basically). If I need a file I deleted or which has gotten corrupted, I just copy it back from drive E:. The initial copy took quite a while, but incrementals finish in short order (not that it matters much; I'm not usually in front of the computer at 4am).
You can get more sophisticated with the backup scheme than I have, of course, but this adds for me the comfort of knowing that I have a copy of everything digital I've done should the main drives in my computer release their magic smoke.
If you've put off getting an external backup solution, check out the current hardware. It's pretty darned cheap insurance!!!
-Noel | 
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