[plug] backing up Linux to Windows

[Denis Brown]

Thanks to Leon and Bernd for additional input to this issue.

I must admit to having looked unfavourably at additional drives as the 
solution, falling back to the tape paradigm despite, as Bernd says, the 
required file always being at the end of the last tape in your set :-)

Leon (and others) -- in your experience just how stable / reliable are the 
200GB USB2 drives?   I have always been concerned about the physical 
handling side... drop a tape acidentally and no worries but drop a whole 
drive and Boom (tm).   Having said that one of my users here is doing just 
that on her WinXP machine and so far no tragedies.

TIA,
Denis