> I can backup (!) this assertion. I've had nothing but trouble trying to > get a USB2 backup solution working nicely. It's a great idea, but i > ended up crashing a file server many times,
I would put this down to kernel/hardware problems. I use USB mass storage devices quite a bit, and have yet to see any crashes. The worst that happened once was with some flash cards which I plugged in some silly fashion and combined with a reboot, failed to delete the mount point automatically created previously. Looks reliable to me. > and creating some > interesting filename munging scripts to make the interesting filenames > people call things fit onto a FAT32 fs If you use a USB harddisk as a backup system for Linux and store more than just iso images or tar files, any fat filesystem is obviously totally useless. Reformat with something useable. Added side benefit: the Microsofties don't accidentally read it. But as you say, backing up over the ethernet onto any media connected to some other computer is way more flexible. Volker -- Volker Kuhlmann is list0570 with the domain in header http://volker.dnsalias.net/ Please do not CC list postings to me.
