I use this on my machines that have usb 1.1. However for machines that have usb2, you will find that usb is faster than firewire.
I backup using BRU, (paid - but worth the price) and it builds a compressed tar-like file directly on the target drive, rather than a file by file copy. This allows me to stack several complete backups onto an external drive. http://www.bru.com/
I have one unit that has both a firewire and usb2 port. Either works fine, as long as I plug into a usb2 port on the computer.
I have another Western Digital "MyBook" which is usb2 only. These are really great drives by the way. They use intelligent power on/power off, and work on windows or Linux. Once my BRU backups exceeded 4gig I had to repartition the drive a smarter file system. I just put Reiserfs on it because imho its faster than snot.
Ok is this better on the quoteing Randall I found where it was at in outlook 2007 an fixed it. 9 I'm forced to use outlook for now ). Thanks for the info John, I have a seatgate driver that I play with that is usb an I think firewire , Might have to hook that up after my trip next week an see what happens with it. I need to checkout Bru I have played with the free version in the past with a tape drive. Thanks for the heads up on 4 gig file size, My backup files size now is at 11 plus gigs an growing. I archive every three months an do not do a backup nightly on the airchive stuff so I can cut my files size down. Jack Malone -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org