Re: [opensuse] Suggestions for backup software?

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jdd sur free wrote:
G T Smith a écrit :

I may be being a bit paranoid but if I went for a HDD based solution it
would be a remote server or a caddy based option... my experience with
USB based devices does not make me inclined to rely on them for
something critically important, they tend to be more likely to go AWOL
when you really need them...

?? I use the very same HDD as on usual hardware, and keep the hdd
without interface (sort of large usb keys :-))

jdd


Yep... but with the situation that at the device end you usually have a
bit of hardware which does a USB -> ATAPI/IDE/PATA/SATA translation...
so you have at least one (possibly more) level(s) of translation... with
additional power paraphernalia... and all which goes with it... For a
laptop or desktop where you have no additional slots one obviously has
no choice but otherwise I would look at alternative approaches...

With a caddy one just has an ATAPI/IDE/PATA/SATA link to the hardware on
your box with no additional wires and other bits and pieces... I am
aware that hot plugging a caddy drive may be problematic... (the only
real complaint I have had with caddies is for some reason suppliers tend
to only supply one caddy per mount unit and they seem to be a little
more difficult to get hold of now... )

I am a simple kind of chap that tends to prefer things with fewer things
that can go wrong, I rather prefer KISS solutions...


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