Back Up solution

The most cost efective backup method, is to use CD-R disks for weekly / monthly backups, and CD-RW for your daily backups.

2GB will be 3 CDs worth of data. (4 for CD-RW)

Looking at both drive, and media costs, you just can't beet the cost of CDs for data sets under 10GB.

Another option, would be a hot-swap bay, and spare hard drives.

Chas

You can buy Travan TR3 drives for about $40 that will backup 1.6/3.2GB (uncompressed/compressed) of data on each tape. I have bought new drives recently to backup 2GB and under. There are models that connect to the second floppy as well as externals and eide connnections.

These are good lo cost alternatives if you don't want to have to swap discs.