We had a Ditto drive and a series of tapes, bought circa 1996. We used the software it came with on Windows to perform full back ups of the machine, cycling bet

We had a Ditto drive and a series of tapes, bought circa 1996. We used the software it came with on Windows to perform full back ups of the machine, cycling between a set of tapes (maybe 6). Backup would complete overnight. Never had to restore from it. It was a consumer friendly, easy to use product and cheap. My father was an accountant that ran his own practise, so needed to know his files were safe. That went from carbon copies into a second filing cabinet, to 5 1/4" floppies for groups of clients, to 3.5" floppies, to Ditto tapes to USB sticks to Microsoft Cloud storage (which sinks between laptop and PC). The oldest days of filing cabinets and floppies were easy, the middle days of Ditto and USB storage was more worrying, and the final days of cloud storage went back to being simple again. Now he is retired so none of it matters. This was all donkeys years ago, so it is interesting to hear how things have changed.