I have over 80GB to deal with. (all my own music -no napster or net garbage and not on my Empeg all at once)
one solution would to simply use an adapter to convert the drive to a standard IDE connection and put the drive in your PC as a slave.
Then boot a Win 98SE floppy with ASPI drivers in order to see your SCSI tape drive (I use a Sony AIT 80 gigger)
then simply run Symantec GHOST (disk image app) and do a sector by sector dump of the drive to tape.
This would allow a complete full restore should your drive go belly up.
I have also done the burn to CDR thing since I started MP3 (waaaaaay back) and that allows me to sleep at night

However, this brings up a good question for Rob...
Why can't a backup function be enabled for the Empeg and use emplode to administer it?
Of course, the data would\could be dumped to a proprietary format single file that is not readable (encrypted) by anything else but the restore function used by emplode back to the Empeg.
No legal issues there.

I work for the largest backup company in the free world, so backup is always an issue for me.
It really is kinda silly that Empeg does not provide the ability or option to backup the DATA on your unit.
Empeg (SonicBlue) should really take a closer look at this.

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