Date: Sat, 28 Jun 2003 22:31:35 +0200
From: Willy Tarreau <willy@w.ods.org>
To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: "Dr. David Alan Gilbert" <gilbertd@treblig.org>,
       Larry McVoy <lm@bitmover.com>,
       Scott McDermott <vaxerdec@frontiernet.net>,
       Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: bkbits.net is down
Message-ID: <20030628203135.GC29680@alpha.home.local>
References: <1056732854.3172.56.camel@dhcp22.swansea.linux.org.uk> <20030627235150.GA21243@work.bitmover.com> <20030627165519.A1887@beaverton.ibm.com> <20030628001625.GC18676@work.bitmover.com> <20030627205140.F29149@newbox.localdomain> <20030628031920.GF18676@work.bitmover.com> <1056827655.6295.22.camel@dhcp22.swansea.linux.org.uk> <20030628191847.GB8158@work.bitmover.com> <20030628193857.GH841@gallifrey> <1056832290.6289.44.camel@dhcp22.swansea.linux.org.uk>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
Content-Disposition: inline
In-Reply-To: <1056832290.6289.44.camel@dhcp22.swansea.linux.org.uk>
User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i
Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org
Content-Length: 721
Lines: 17

On Sat, Jun 28, 2003 at 09:31:30PM +0100, Alan Cox wrote:
> On Sad, 2003-06-28 at 20:38, Dr. David Alan Gilbert wrote:
> > Tapes are a pain; but at the type of 40GB range is it worth considering
> > a pile of external USB/Firewire hard drives?
> 
> I'm testing the USB2 disk idea at the moment. Big problem is performance
> - 5Mbytes/second isnt the best backup rate in the world.

Well, still quite faster than a DDS3 anyway, and probably faster than a DDS4...

Cheers,
Willy
-
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org
More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at  http://www.tux.org/lkml/