-----Original Message-----
From: Greg Freemyer [mailto:greg.freemyer@gmail.com]
Sent: Monday, March 12, 2007 5:31 PM
To: opensuse@opensuse.org
Subject: Re: [opensuse] firewire drives & backups
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. Thanks Greg for the info I will have to check into that esata drive for sure. I do not have an esata connection on this machine but I do have sata connections on the 3ware raid card that might work for that. I have 3 spare ports on this 3ware raid card that I can use, just no more room in the tower for any more drives to be mounted. This is an older machine ( 3 or 4 years old) that does not have esata or sata on the motherboard if I remember. I'm just looking for a faster backup device then tape or network backup from another machine. Do you think that using one of the spare ports on my 3ware card with the sata to esata cable will work ok or not. I have a spare pci slot that I could stick another sata card into the machine also. Jack -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org