Carlos E. R. wrote: > > The Wednesday 2007-05-02 at 15:58 +0200, jdd wrote: > > >>> My PC doesn't have usb 2.0, so those network things are faster than usb. >> usb 2 is now 4 or 5 years old and available on addon cards, not usefull only >> for backup :-) > > I know, I know, but I don't have dozens of PCI sockets. Only three. > > >>> And some of those boxes have three interfaces: network, usb, and firewire. >> well... I can use USB2 for video capture (it's nearly as fast as the original >> disk), certainly not network. > >> given this the network gigabit is pretty cheap nowaday, and I would already >> use it if all my house was not wired on cat 5, too slow :-( > >> if you can have gigabit, take it, you will be glad :-) > > My router is 100 Mbit, so it's no use; same as my other PC, and those of > my "visitors". > > In my particular case, a network disk is interesting, if I can find it > nice, cheap, and good. Otherwise, usb is not bad either, even if I have to > wait longer than you ;-) > > Can't have everything state of the art. > And you do not need to. Use for example rsnapshot for your backup purposes and after the initial "full backup", taking a while, the rest is a snap, even with the slowest possible connection type.
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