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I am thinking that one of these days Firewire disks will become a good backup medium for many uses. Here are some of their virtues: - fast xfer rates; - "instant access"--can be mounted as, well, disk volumes; - removable, hot pluggable, portable; - getting tougher every year (as tape is getting more and more delicate?); and - cheap (currently less than $2/GB, packaged and ready to plug in). -kb, the Kent who also thinks incremental "rsync --link-dest" backups to another normally readonly partition on a software raid 1 array accomplishes a lot.
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