On Sun, Jul 02, 2006 at 12:54:49AM -0600, Nate Duehr wrote: > > On Jul 1, 2006, at 11:52 PM, David E. Fox wrote: > > [Long discourse on backups and how they were done ten years ago.] > > > > >>2. External hard disks are slightly less portable than DVD's. > >> > >>3. External hard disks *might* take up slightly more phhysical space > >>over DVD's, depending on the size/density of the disk. > > > >And you can't really just plug them in (hotswap) as easily either. > >They're more of a permanently "there" setup. OTOH, several years ago I > >visited a local shop where they had these external "cage" things where > >you could just plug an HD in from the outside, and not have to open > >the > >case. Of course, you can simply connect a USB or firewire drive > >without > >having to open the case, and likely without having to power down the > >system to change drives. > > I think part of this chain is my comments. I was definitely > referring to USB or FIrewire drives. Those removable trays are > useless for backups, as they require system downtime to swap them. > Nothing needs that nowadays. > > Plug in a USB drive, rsync, unplug it and store is somewhere safe. > Done.
I've had problems with USB cages to wrap hard disks, but none with IDE cages. Maybe a bum cage? The downtime is a problem, but I don't need all of my machines to be up 24/7. 23.95/7 is quote enough. In any case, I can put the cage in a lesser-used machine on my LAN and use NFS. Except my NFS is still choking on files > 4G. -- hendrik -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
