Have you considered eventually using Time Machine to handle your
laptop backups? It's a somewhat different mentality than Retro, but
it will get all your laptop data into a location where you can get
it onto tape...
Note that Time Machine won't backup logged in File Vaulted users.
Since I recommend FV for all mobile users, this unfortunately blows
this out of the water as a real option.
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