New Hard Drives... now need reliable back-up.

I use True Image 9. I sheduled it to image my drives weekly, keeping the last 3 copies. It stores the image on another computer on my network. I used to use Ghost, but TI allows you to image drives while in windows. The rescue boot CD had no problems detecing machines on the network or the nvidia nforce4 raid controller. TI can also do incremental and differential backups & images.

You can try the trial version for 15 days and it's fully functional.

What kind of backups are you looking to do? Do you just want to backup just some data or do you want to have backup images for disaster recovery if one of the drive fails?

In either case I would get an external hard drive either USB 2.0 or Fireware and use that for backups. An external hard drive is much faster and cheaper than tapes. You can get a Western Digital External 250GB for $141 on Newegg. But if I were you I'd go for the 320GB for $185.

For plain data backups just use the Backup utility built into XP (I'm assuming you are using WinXP). If you want full image backup either use Ghost or True Image. Schedule backups as you see fit. For my computer I schedule nightly data backups, and I have a weekly Ghost backup for distaster recovery.