1 x external USB2/Firewall HDD (ata-133) casing ~ $140 1 x 300GB HD ~ $500
You can do a complete backup and because it is an external unit, remove it from the machine and store off site.
Get 2 or 3. You have complete maybe even bootable backups of your machine.
thats what i am suggesting. minus the booting part.
only i recommend firewire over usb2.
i have had a lot of trouble with usb2 whether that be a kernel problem or chipset, it caused massive cpu overhead and was slower than firewire on a few different test machines i have tried
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