A few posts ago I talked about the importance of backups. A recent article brought this to my attention again though it was discussing Disaster Recovery rather than just backups: Symantec have found that most Small / Medium Businesses are unprepared for when disaster strikes.
The importance of good backups was driven home to me again recently when our tape drive failed and I had to replace it. I decided that it was time to upgrade our tape drive to a newer model with greater capacity as recently our backups have been requiring more than one tape. I purchased a reasonable second hand tape drive through Trademe.