@rlsuth: Ts-ts-ts, I have two hard disks (one at home, another at my work place). ;) Remember: one backup is no backup at all!

@caki: MP3/UHA and other tricks are for packaging warez releases to as small sizes as possible - and, as a side effect, that makes the unpacking VERY long. For me, size doesn't matter (khm :D) but unpacking time does so, no, I don't do extra compression steps.

yes this is the right attitude dude ;) since hdds getting cheaper all day...
doing it the same way but mostly with(out)minimal compression, just a backup copy-in-a-rar. this speeds up the entire process a lot.

time is money :D