On Thu, Oct 17, 2013 at 11:35 AM, Phil Reynolds <phil-backu...@tinsleyviaduct.com> wrote: > > >> If you aren't used to backuppc, it will take much less storage than >> you expect due to compression and pooling. And if you are exceeding >> the (at least) 1.5TB you can get in the 2.5" form, the performance is >> going to matter. > > At the time I got these drives, 1TB was impractical in 2.5".
Times have changed. And they are pretty cheap too - and the usb versions don't need external power. >> The one other thing you should do is have backuppc installed on some >> other machine at the offsite location (I kept it on a VM on a laptop >> that could attach to the USB) if you want to be able to recover things >> easily. > > Not possible, unless I build a machine for the purpose and pay its > running costs to the person who pays the bill there. The main thing is to have a plan for recovery in an acceptable amount of time - and preferably something that you can test while not under the stress of a disaster when a mis-step might wipe your only copy of the data. A linux VM image that you can fire up on a machine you already have is pretty much free if you use vmware player or virtualbox - and either of these should be able to give the VM access to a physical USB device. And you don't even need to store the image as long as you are confident that you know how to create it when you need it. -- Les Mikesell lesmikes...@gmail.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ October Webinars: Code for Performance Free Intel webinars can help you accelerate application performance. Explore tips for MPI, OpenMP, advanced profiling, and more. Get the most from the latest Intel processors and coprocessors. See abstracts and register > http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=60135031&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net List: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users Wiki: http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net Project: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/