Re: Backup to a USB memory stick: Some questions.

On Wed, 27 Feb 2008 18:46:13 -0800, pureheart wrote:

I've half-decided to get an 8GB USB memory stick to use as backup. (I'm
using Mandrake 10.1 Official right now.)

That's exactly how I am doing my backups. I formatted my USB
stick as ext2, and then I use a simple script, launched by crond on a
regular basis, to do my backups my rsync. It works like a charm.

.

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