Home backups

[Conspirator]

4 bucks a dvd damn where you buying from

Expensive Connection.R104/25 Verbatim. I should really shop around for something cheaper, I know.

those who do full backups to external HDDs: how long does it take and how often do you do it?

External averages about 20MB/s, can go up about 34MB. More on Firewire. Compression slows it down considerably.

I send myself emails on gmail with compressed,

Google will soon open GDrive for public use.