I have been using pcbackup to backup 4 desktops ultimately onto an external USB drive for the past 2 years with no problems. I would admit however that I would not recommend this for anything more than the trivial backups I do.I will also add that I have bare metal backups for the hosts I care about.
Jon On 22 Apr 2013 16:39, "Andy Smith" <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello, > > On Mon, Apr 22, 2013 at 04:30:06PM +0100, Chris Dennis wrote: > > On 22/04/13 14:44, Andy Smith wrote: > > >And yet I would still choose storage over a 1Gig Ethernet as opposed > > >to over USB3. > > > > Why? :) > > > > There seems to be a lot of aversion on this list to USB-connected > > hard drives. What are the advantages of Ethernet-connected ones? > > Every USB storage device I've ever used, including on USB3, has been > slow and unreliable regardless of the theoretical limits of a USB > bus. > > Take the USB2 480Mbit/s theoretical performance: have you EVER got > 60MByte/etc to a USB disk, even as a streaming read? And then try it > for random writes, and compare that to SATA-II doing same. > > Like the popular Meatloaf song goes, > I'll use USB for keyboard and mice and wifi adapters and and.. but > I won't use USB for storage > > Cheers, > Andy > > -- > http://bitfolk.com/ -- No-nonsense VPS hosting > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (GNU/Linux) > > iEYEAREDAAYFAlF1WYkACgkQIJm2TL8VSQt3nQCgiM9BTlyzuMIqj5Ug3SVjAroE > rLgAn2Cm34jDakAMO2DI0gvXqlbnRLIq > =nU8c > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > -- > Please post to: [email protected] > Web Interface: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/hampshire > LUG URL: http://www.hantslug.org.uk > -------------------------------------------------------------- >
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