I have an external drive mapped to my documents on my desktop. This is by default where I save all my critical data, including pst's. My Documents is set as offline and also mapped to my server so it is tape backed up at night. When I loging I synch to the server from the laptop/external drive. Laptop and drive travel in two seperate places. In the event one or both is lost I am covered. Once tape has run at night I also synch (from the server) to an external/offsite location. Synch time is minimal after the initial synchronization as the backup routine only back ups what has changed.

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