Re: External USB hard drive

Harold Weissman wrote:

In particular, would
using such a hard drive be an appropriate medium for backups?

Hello Harold,

In addition to the other replies, I would like to recommend you the tool
named "StoreBackup". This utility does make daily backups of selected
folders to a ext3 (or similar, but not FAT or NTFS) partition. Instead of
copying the whole lot of files and eating up your disk space in no time, it
uses hard links for unchanged files and actually copies only the
new/changed ones. Thus, you have available complete daily snapshots of your
data, by simply using any file browser.

StoreBackup Homepage: http://sourceforge.net/projects/storebackup
Tutorial specific to SuSE: http://en.opensuse.org/StoreBackup

With regards,
Hendric
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Hendric Stattmann, Mödling, Austria. Registered Linux User #178879

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