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redundant backup sould be priority 1 for freelance designers, programmers and writers.
my suggestion is to start buying parts and build yourself a file server with raid.
if i remember right, i built ls0.silolabs.net for ~$250. that's pocket change.
no one says you have to buy a shitty dell box for $1000 or even new parts. although newegg has cheap parts.
our lug has a hardware exchange every month or so...a lot of times we'll give people old hardware we have laying around. and i bought a $10K alpha dec server for $165 at a university auction last month. a dual 64bit server with 8 scsi drives...for $165.
you just have to expend some effort to find shit.
ls0 specs:
amd xp 1.xghz
512mb ram
2x80gb drives in software raid 1 config
2x 10/100 nicsgentoo linux 2005.0
since the drives are mirrored i have ~80gbs of usable space...but if one drive fails the other takes over.
i have a backup script that runs daily on a cron job that tars (archives) the /home directory and then rysncs it with a server in my office at work. offsite backup.
~$250 bucks for a comprehensive, near-enterprise level backup solution.
so, build a cheap-o box...follow the gentoo handbook and the forum post about software raid...and email me for the backup script (it's a bash script) and then just copy the backup to your workstation and/or external drive.
simple and effective.