Two more things that I forgot to mention about backing up your computer to DVD

[thewayne]

Pick up some CD/DVD sleeves, they might be in the same aisle as the DVDs. You can get a box of 50 of them for pretty cheap. Also get a medium-point Sharpie marker to write date and basic content info onto the DVDs. Don't bother with printing labels and sticking them on, theoretically you won't be pulling these out on a regular basis to load things from them and the additional cost and labor just isn't worth it.

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I don't yet have an external HD. What I'd like is a pair of mirrored SATA drives in the cabinet and a removable drive bay, but I can't spend serious money on hardware at the moment.

Hopefully if we have to do an emergency forest fire evacuation, I'll certainly be able to grab my laptop and my fire-proof chest with my backups, and I should have enough time to grab my desktop. The tricky bit will be when I have multiple computers beyond the two that I'm currently using. At least with us having two cars, we won't have problems with space to take stuff.