But if you blow off backing up and have to run Volume Recover, you will at least have a place to recover to. Then the program will use the stack to make a mirror image of your HD, deleting files from the stack as you delete them from your drive, replacing older versions of documents with current ones, and adding new documents, and applications too. It will also back up your archived and current email, by saving the folders that contain it, usually buried in your System Folder. The free backup program that comes with the Zip is adequate to the task, but barely. If it would not mount a volume when running from the Norton CD you could not do a Volume Recover, but you would have already backed up your drive and it would take only one or two cartridges.
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Then all you have to do is insert your Orb disk and drag over the Documents folder and the System Folder and you will always have a backup of your personal files and your email. Nothing could be simpler. Finally, there is the imminent release of Rewind from PowerOn Software. I can barely begin to understand how this could work, but we will all find out Real Soon Now.