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. This drive can backup 200 gigabytes of data (or 400 gigabytes of compressed data) which is quite a step up on our previous drive which did 20gb (40gb compressed). The cost of the tape drive and some new tapes to go with it was a little under $1000.00. Well worth the expense when the alternative is possibly not being in business!