Sorry, no. That already happened when Finland won the Eurovision song contest a few years ago.

It was not mentioned how much would need to be backed up, but I've used my Digital Video camera as a backup tape device for my important data. For me it's a very nice solution since now I use the same equipment for home videos and Gnomemeeting as well. Talk about a starving hacker/wife approved budget... :-)

Good things with DV tapes are that they come with ~10GB of storage space and 3.5MB/s speed. Works very nicely with dvbackup

Of course DV tapes are a non-standard solution, longer tapes do not exist yet and the solution does not scale - but hey, this is advice you find on slashdot.

-pfl