Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (2859 mails)

[Eberhard Roloff <tuxebi@xxxxxx>]

Carlos E. R. wrote:
> 
> The Wednesday 2007-05-02 at 15:58 +0200, jdd wrote:
> 
> 
>>> My PC doesn't have usb 2.0, so those network things are faster than usb.
>> usb 2 is now 4 or 5 years old and available on addon cards, not usefull only
>> for backup :-)
> 
> I know, I know, but I don't have dozens of PCI sockets. Only three.
> 
> 
>>> And some of those boxes have three interfaces: network, usb, and firewire.
>> well... I can use USB2 for video capture (it's nearly as fast as the original
>> disk), certainly not network.
> 
>> given this the network gigabit is pretty cheap nowaday, and I would already
>> use it if all my house was not wired on cat 5, too slow :-(
> 
>> if you can have gigabit, take it, you will be glad :-)
> 
> My router is 100 Mbit, so it's no use; same as my other PC, and those of 
> my "visitors".
> 
> In my particular case, a network disk is interesting, if I can find it 
> nice, cheap, and good. Otherwise, usb is not bad either, even if I have to 
> wait longer than you ;-)
> 
> Can't have everything state of the art.
> 
And you do not need to. Use for example rsnapshot for your backup
purposes and after the initial "full backup", taking a while, the rest
is a snap, even with the slowest possible connection type.

regards
Eberhard

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