[ltp] Backup Solutions?

[J.J.Green]

Hi

> With hard-drives sizes greater than 30 Gigs, copying filesystems to
> CDROM is no longer an option.....Are people using USB(2.0?)/Firewire
> drives? Do they work reliably on linux?

Ive got an external maxtor USB2 hard drive attatched
to my home network which I find very convenient.
- it workes with USB1 devices (like the built-in
  usb on my TP)
- I usually have it attatched to an old pentium with a
  no-name USB2 card thrown in, and I get good bandwidth for
  backups via PCMCIA ethernet to this box.  

You need 2.4.19+ to make use of the extra bandwith in 
USB2 though.

-j
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