Mark Phillips wrote: > I am setting up a new backuppc server. Are there any advantages to using > an external drive (USB or eSATA) over an internal drive to store the > backups? The server is an older Pentium 3 500 MHz box running Debian > Linux. I plan on using ssh/rsync to do the backups for other Linux > boxes, a Windows box, and a Mac.
Because rsync backups in BackupPC is implemented in Perl, the speed of your server is going to greatly limit your top speed no matter what storage solution you choose. USB 2.0 has a practical maximum throughput of 33MB/s. eSATA runs at drive speed (I get 120MB/s out of my 1.5T drives before they fill up 50%). I converted to eSATA across the board a year ago. -- Jim Leonard ([email protected]) http://www.oldskool.org/ Help our electronic games project: http://www.mobygames.com/ Or check out some trippy MindCandy at http://www.mindcandydvd.com/ A child borne of the home computer wars: http://trixter.wordpress.com/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal Reports 2008 30-Day trial. Simplify your report design, integration and deployment - and focus on what you do best, core application coding. Discover what's new with Crystal Reports now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/bobj-july _______________________________________________ BackupPC-users mailing list [email protected] List: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users Wiki: http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net Project: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
