Cool new toy

[david nicol]

It is asked how do you back up a 200G hard drive?

The serious answer is, you don't.  Tape backup is a 
relic of the days when it made sense.  It no longer makes
sense.  The new paradigm, for the last several years and
into the future, is RAID, or if not configuring your large
drives into RAID arrays, getting multiple ones and backing them
up onto each other.

For instance, you can have two 200G drives and back each, except
for the "backups" directory, onto the FS on the other one.  With
compression and a full/incremental backup strategy, you wind up with
usable capacity that depends on the compressability of your data :)

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