I think it's time I had a bit of a re-think as to how I back up my laptop as I had a near disaster today (corrupted zip file - luckily for me I had an identical copy on the zip disk for the previous night).

Anyway, my current solution (as old as 100 meg zip disks - really, so feel free to laugh) is:

1. 100 meg zip disk drive.
2. 12 zip disks.
3. Numerous other zip disks that store stuff I archived off because I don't use often.
4. A script I run at the end of each day (just a dos script) that zips up anything important and puts it onto the three zips (no disk spanning used - just directories associated with specific disks).

At the moment, I'm beyond the capacity limits of this (I've had to archive off and start again with emails a couple of times recently.

As always, what I want to know is what do you all use and trust?

In terms of new hardware, I would prefer a device that's quite flexible in terms of USB/USB2/Firewire etc (looking forward to new hardware soon).

Generally, I like open things I can get at using the standard tools available to me (the reason I don't use proprietary system I probably wouldn't trust) but if anyone can recommend a "trustworthy" bought in solution, I'd be interested.

Regards
I