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My backup routine is as follows.
1. Entire system is backed up weekly on a 2nd internal hard drive. (If I had a laptop I would use an external SATA drive).
2. Critical files (Quicken files, Outlook files, and work files) are backed up online with Norton 360 every night. This is about 200 Meg worth.
3. Once a year I burn the entire system backup onto Blu-Ray disks and put them in the storage unit.
In a worst case scenario (fire), I only lose 12 months worth of pictures/music and then I can get the latest critical files from Norton online.
I would consider a complete online backup if I didn't have 500 Gigs of pictures/music. This is way too much to send over the internet and not cost effective either. Plus, I get 4Gb of free Norton online storage for free when I bought the product.
The compared cost of online is buying the second hard drive to protect against hard drive crashes and the blu-ray drive + media for fire protection.
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Jeff C
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