Is there any easy way to back up about 56gigs of stuff?

[Pepsei]

got some cash? buy a DLT drive.

 

[FrustratedUser]

Floppies

 

[dabuddha]

bust out the floppies
you'll need ~41,756,627 floppy disks

 

[Scarpozzi]

DLT.

I meant to add....you can get some decent deals for around $500 from Dell... I'm not sure of the exact price because it depends on what you get. ArcServe 2000 is pretty easy to use.

 

[0roo0roo]

Originally posted by: phillyTIM
Best way nowadays to be sure we have backups? Several options, most favored to least...

1. Purchase 2 of the same hard drive, and RAID it. Hopefully your mobo will have integrated support for this.

2. Purchase a second of your same hard drive, add a RAID card to your PC and RAID it.

3. Purchase an external, USB2.0 hard drive and copy your internal HD files to the external HD.

4. Organize and backup only critical data to CD-R.

yup, raid is the easiest and most transparent way of safe guarding your stuff. if your house burns down your cd backups probably will burn with the hd, so no difference

 

[HamSupLo]

hey Grimlock, you have some Faye Wong videos? hook me up

 

[ProviaFan]

Originally posted by: Scarpozzi
DLT.

I meant to add....you can get some decent deals for around $500 from Dell... I'm not sure of the exact price because it depends on what you get. ArcServe 2000 is pretty easy to use.

That's what I need to get. CD-Rs are too damn inconvenient for backups, and Zip disks are way too small.

 

[Harvey]

Norton Ghost is your friend. As others have suggested, get another drive, and clone it. It's probably cheaper than a tape drive and definitely faster. A Ghosted drive is fully bootable and runs the same as your original so, when your drive dies, you just pop in the backup, you keep stepping with the backup, and all you're out is the cost of a new backup drive. Once you're done with your original task, you can keep Ghosting as often as you wish. I can clone my 20 GB drive in 10 minutes.

The really cool way to do it is to buy a Mobile Rack, a device that mounts in a 5 1/4" bay and accepts a slide in trey that holds your clone drive. Ghost is run from a bootable floppy, so all you have to do is plug in the drive, boot up, clone the drive, and remove it to a safe place until the next time.