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i've been looking for some sort of backup solution recently for my home pc's. has anyone got any advice?

i've got 2 pc's and 1 laptop networked on a 4 port broadband router. what i would want ideally, would be something that could back-up any or all of my pc's preferably without too much unplugging of leads, and ideally something that would do the job automatically say once per day.

i've got no experience of backing up at all. has anyone got any suggestions for a cost effective solution, other than writing data to cd's? i've looked at external harddrives which seem to look ok, are these recomended? i don't want to pay more than about $250 if i can help it.

thanks in advance