From Leo's mailbag:
> From: A Computer User
> Sent: August 14, 2005
> To: Ask Leo!
> Subject: How to back up 50gb
>
> Leo,
> What is the best way to back up large amounts of data (approx
> 50GB) cheaply. I would also like to do it cheaply, and so if
> possible, I would like to avoid buying an external hard drive.
It depends on how often, how long you want it to take, and how
automated you want it to be.
If it's infrequent and you don't mind a little manual labor,
I'd burn it to DVDs. 10 or 11 DVDs would do that amount.
Of course you could purchase a second *internal* hard drive,
or backup to the hard drive on another computer on your network.
If you need it to be more streamlined, or automated, then
backing up to tape is about the only real solution. But it's
not going to be very cheap, I'm afraid.
Thanks for asking!
Leo
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