My first question is how much data are you backing up?

You can use external hard drives for this nowadays and just switch out the
drives. In our setup, I have /home mapped to the external drive. We switch
out the drives weekly or so. When I do the switch, I do power off and power
on again. The system doesn't seem to know that anything changed.

If you don't have a lot of data (under 500 GB or so), USB drives will
probably be okay. If you have more, I recommend using eSATA.

Chris Baker -- cbaker AT intera DOT com
systems administrator
INTERA -- 512-425-2006
 

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>>Are various storage media's secure for data storage if one 
>>cannot afford online backup? How much feasible to store data 
>>on offsite storage Media?
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