On 3/12/07, Jack Malone
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
Don't ignore eSata (external sata) for the same purpose. (If you don't have an eSata connector you can get a Sata <--> eSata cable for $10 or $20, just be sure it is 300 Gbit/sec rated.) Especially for Linux I believe the sata drivers are more actively maintained and have a much bigger user base than the firewire drivers. Seagate for one has a couple of eSata 300 Gbit/sec drives. They should be much faster than even firewire. (3x per the datasheet). http://www.seagate.com/www/en-us/products/external/esata_hard_drive/ Amazon has the 500GB for $260 http://www.amazon.com/Seagate-ST3500601XS-RK-500GB-eSATA-External/dp/B000FOL... Greg -- Greg Freemyer The Norcross Group Forensics for the 21st Century -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org