[NTLUG:Discuss] Question about tape drives

[Rob Apodaca]

> The only viable way that I know is to use the network to back up one
> hard drive onto another in another PC.  With drive sleds and cheap IDE
> drives, hard discs are a pretty reasonable backup media.  They are
> fast, convenient, and have by far the largest capacity of ANY backup
> media.[...]
> Really: Take a scruffy old PC with a slow old CPU and too little RAM
> to be useful, slap a couple of demountable IDE sleds on it and
> backup over your network.
> 
> The gloriously wonderful thing about this approach is that you can
> restore from a backup after a catastrophic disk crash just by swapping
> out the drive.  You can be back up and running in 10 minutes.
[...]

These can be hot-swapped?