Re: [SLE] Backup

From: Carlos E. R. (robin1.listas_at_tiscali.es)
Date: 08/15/04

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    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

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