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Well at work we swtiched from tape DAT drives to an offsite service.

At home I use multiple computers and thumbdrives depending on what it is I'm backing up and when. I should probably be more proactive about it, but its tough to get proactive at home.

One thing I tried a while back while I was working on some paid sidework is an extension that turns your gmail account into offsite storage.

http://www.raymond.cc/blog/archives/2006/08/22/easily-backup-files-to-gmail-with-a-click/

This puts a dummy drive on your computer and all you have to do is drag files to the dummy drive. The software then zips up the files and sends them to you Gmail account. Inside Gmail they look like e-mails from your gmail account to your gmail account. I like this method a lot, though I never did try to restore the files from it.

-Steve G.

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