Re: Using external USB2.0 HDD for backup

2006-10-11 Thread Colin Percival
Toomas Aas wrote: > Does anyone have good experience using external USB 2.0 HDD for backup > with FreeBSD 6? Yes. I have a 250GB Seagate drive inside a Vantec NexStar3 USB enclosure and it works quite well -- the performance is slightly worse than the raw drive specs, but at 25 MB/s transfer rate

Using external USB2.0 HDD for backup

2006-10-11 Thread Toomas Aas
Hello! Does anyone have good experience using external USB 2.0 HDD for backup with FreeBSD 6? My current server is FreeBSD 4.11 and I've been using Amanda with external HDDs that connect over FireWire for past ~3 years. This setup has been rock solid. Back when I was building it, I chose Fir