Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S265405AbTF1UlJ (ORCPT ); Sat, 28 Jun 2003 16:41:09 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S265434AbTF1UlI (ORCPT ); Sat, 28 Jun 2003 16:41:08 -0400 Received: from mail.webmaster.com ([216.152.64.131]:38322 "EHLO shell.webmaster.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S265405AbTF1Uk6 (ORCPT ); Sat, 28 Jun 2003 16:40:58 -0400 From: "David Schwartz" To: "Alan Cox" Cc: "Linux Kernel Mailing List" Subject: RE: bkbits.net is down Date: Sat, 28 Jun 2003 13:55:11 -0700 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.6604 (9.0.2911.0) Importance: Normal In-Reply-To: <1056832290.6289.44.camel@dhcp22.swansea.linux.org.uk> X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1106 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 903 Lines: 23 > 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. If the issue is the time the backup itself takes, 2 hours isn't a big deal, it'll finish over a long lunch break. If the issue is having to lock out write access or otherwise stabilize the actual data for the time it takes to backup, just stage a copy of the backup to a local disk and then backup to external disk from there. DS - 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/