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Getting serious about backup, need advice

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Killbat

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I used to back up onto CDRs periodically, when I only had up to 8GB of data to preserve. Now that that number has ballooned to 70GBs, I have determined that the cheapest and best solution is to get a 5400rpm 80GB hard drive and put it in an external USB/1394 enclosure.

The thing I need help with is software. With CDRs I just ran a complete backup every once in a while, then burned it onto discs in a spanned RAR. With this external drive, I'll only be able to backup at 11mbps, which means it'll take over 10 hours to do a complete backup. This is unacceptable. Software that can perform incremental backups is what I need. I know Microsoft's own Backup utility can do it, but I'm not solid on how to "work it". I really have no idea what other backup solutions are available.
 
No way you can switch that to an external firewire or SCSI?


Or, if you still have 1 IDE chan free, put a removable HD cage in your computer. You stick in an IDE hard drive, back up in 10(?) minutes, then pull it back out.
 
Nope, all my IDE channels are booked solid, and I'd rather not have to put another card in my machine just to do backups. I want to keep everything under $300, too.
 
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