On Monday 12 March 2007, Jack Malone wrote: > Im looking for anyone backing up to a firewire type drive attached to a > suse linux machine. I would love to attach a firewire drive to my server for > backups. Firewire is pretty fast an can be moved from one machine to > another. If anyone using them how fast is the backup process . Can you give > me times an amount of data being backup for info please. > > Thanks for info > > > Jack Malone > >
I use this on my machines that have usb 1.1. However for machines that have usb2, you will find that usb is faster than firewire. I backup using BRU, (paid - but worth the price) and it builds a compressed tar-like file directly on the target drive, rather than a file by file copy. This allows me to stack several complete backups onto an external drive. http://www.bru.com/ I have one unit that has both a firewire and usb2 port. Either works fine, as long as I plug into a usb2 port on the computer. I have another Western Digital "MyBook" which is usb2 only. These are really great drives by the way. They use intelligent power on/power off, and work on windows or Linux. Once my BRU backups exceeded 4gig I had to repartition the drive a smarter file system. I just put Reiserfs on it because imho its faster than snot. -- _____________________________________ John Andersen
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