-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 The Thursday 2004-08-12 at 21:45 -0400, Jesse L. Purdom wrote:
Hi Carlos,
¿Serial? ¿Parallel? Er... I hope you have lots of patience... and I mean _lots_.
X'-)
Well, I like to think I'm a patient sort of person. :-)
:-)
Seriously, I know the serial/parallel route would be slow, but I'm not backing up very much data (just /home so I can restore my data after upgrading to SuSE v9.1) so it wouldn't be too bad.
I see. But my /home is way over two gigabytes 8-) How about a CD recorder? Permanent backups are a nice thing to have. But you mentioned a laptop, and those units are more expensive, even if available. An usb external thing would be nice.
I have been looking into USB, and the laptop I'm using does support USB v1.
Well, v1 is slower than v2, by a fair bit. I forgot the numbers, perhaps somebody can expand on that.
My main concern is finding a solution that SuSE v8 Pro and my laptop will work with and I don't want to spend the money on a USB device just to find out that I wont be able to get it to work, at least with a serial/parallel based solution I know I'll be able to make it fly.
If it is a (USB) device known to work with Linux, you will be safe; but you also need it to work with v1. SuSE has a list of compatible hardware on their web site, but other times I found it was not up to date. But I think any USB solution will be a safer bet for you than a serial/parallel port one; I'm just thinking of the future, because there are many laptops nowdays that do not have a serial port, and the parallel one is going that road as well, I think. Therefore, a few years in the future you might have a new laptop and no way to connect your external backup thing.
At this point I'm considering getting a USB HDD enclosure and putting a spare 20GB IDE HDD in it and trying that. I can get the enclosure for around $50 so it wont be a huge investment. Right now money is tight so I'm being fairly conservative on what I'm willing to try.
I have never tried them, so I can't make a personal recomendation there; but it sounds good to me. - -- Cheers, Carlos Robinson -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Made with pgp4pine 1.76 iD8DBQFBHrl6tTMYHG2NR9URAroKAKCVW7k87mXqvbahMUnd6tBdsjMzZACggNLM QnuDizeqoxs4QsXD3/RM1+c= =ehqe -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----