-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday 14 August 2004 21:15, Carlos E. R. wrote:
I see. But my /home is way over two gigabytes 8-)
Ah, yeah I can see where one would want a fairly efficient method for backing that up. /home for me is a wee bit small, coming it at around 5MB or so. :-)
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 had considered that but I'm sure that I would even be able to find one for this Dell. It's fairly old. I've taken a look a a few external units and while they're a bit more pricey they are certainly an option, assuming I can get one which will support USB v1.1.
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.
Yeah, given overall availability of devices I'll likely stay with a USB solution. I didn't know that laptop manufacturers were starting to drop support for serial and parallel devices, but that isn't really too surprising given the popularity of USB.
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.
One of my clients uses one at home and recommended as an inexpensive solution to the issue at hand. I've found a couple units that still support USB v1.1 so I'm thinking it may be worth giving a try.
Cheers, Carlos Robinson
Have a good one, and thanks. Jesse -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQFBH3iEVPKfvL+9l4QRAq3NAKCEfctM6RPsnsx6Yt/Lefl9AdvOoACggQLC wDUdU4rTT9ApLrHLj+1+wT4= =W+KJ -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----