> What would U recommend to buy for making backups of large amount of data
I prefer to do it over the network to another machine on the network.
If you dont have that, an external drive works.
> - like 60-100 gb under windows 2k3 ;)
> what kind of tape device
Tape is WAY past its useby date for that volume of data now.
> and software for it (or maybe batch and vb scripting is enough)
Makes a lot more sense to use a decent backup app like True Image.