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> then at the crack of every dawn a man on a bike would turn up

Most business don't generate very much data at all. Certainly not
enough to warrant man on bike action.

Remember, it is not necessary to take a disk home with you. There are
utilities that only transfer the changes that have been made to your
filesystem.

Lookup rsync, its open source and available for windows.

Andy


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> Scheduling, tape management and payment would all be done via a secure
> website, with the backend just producing a schedule for the biker.
>
> The same company would keep a backup specialist in house to consult
> and install the backup regime, and for charged-per-incident calls to
> restore, either by popping round with the necessary tapes, or
> restoring the files over the network if it's only a partial restore.
>
> This would be targeted at small companies without dedicated staff, of
> course.
>
> It would also offer online storage, and also teleworking/mobile
> support, where laptops and home machines can be backed up to the same
> regime.
>
> Tom
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