[SLE] Backups



Looking for suggestions for backups:

Current situation:
3 data servers: daily tars copied to a 4th server with a tape
backup running at night. The local PCs are NOT backed up,
nothing is supposed to be stored there.

The tape drive has died: a replacement is around $3,000. The
tapes were convenient because somebody could take them home next
night and rotate.

The backups are right now 40Gb, but could easily be reduced to
10Gb.

What can you suggest so that somebody can take the backup home?

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