On Mon, 2007-03-12 at 18:30 -0400, Greg Freemyer wrote:
On 3/12/07, Jack Malone
wrote: I'm looking for anyone backing up to a firewire type drive attached to a suse linux machine. I would love to attach a firewire drive to my server for backups. Firewire is pretty fast an can be moved from one machine to another. If anyone using them how fast is the backup process . Can you give me times an amount of data being backup for info please.
Thanks for info
Jack Malone
Jack, I just got a hard drive enclosure that you can use with both firewire and usb. I attached a 760GB hard drive. It is very fast. I have not measure the real speed. The box says 400mb/s. I am using SuSE 10.2 and just plug it then partition and format the disk (I used yast) and I back up the whole system. It is great. The enclosure is in sale until next week I believe. The price is 39+ dollars and there is a rebate of 30 so it cost $9.60. http://www.microcenter.com/byos/byos_single_product_results.phtml?product_id... I got in the center but you may be able to get it on line. If you want hurry up. They have OEM drives very inexpensive but only up to 250GB. For what I understand you can daisy chain the firewires so you may want to get 2 enclosures. They have all the cables. Hard to beat. The enclosure has one port for usb and 2 ports for firewire so one in, one out. Ciao -=terry(Denver)=- PS: it is my first experience with firewire under linux. Just as easy as usb. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org