Re: Re[2]: [newbie] Max HD size & backup?

2003-06-18 Thread Derek Jennings
On Wednesday 18 Jun 2003 5:04 am, rikona wrote: > > BF> You could use rsync to do backups to a removable drive. > > Sounds interesting for the data backups. Thanks. I'm still snooping > for a reliable way to do complete (and reliable) disk image backups of > the ext3's I have. It seems some progra

Re[2]: [newbie] Max HD size & backup?

2003-06-17 Thread rikona
Hello Brant, Tuesday, June 17, 2003, 12:52:50 PM, you wrote: BF> Here is a page comparing the different journaling file systems. Thanks - these are indeed impressive numbers. My worries are gone. BF> If you are running a file server ext3 might not be a good idea BF> because it is relatively slo

Re[2]: [newbie] Max HD size & backup?

2003-06-17 Thread rikona
Hello Brant, Tuesday, June 17, 2003, 11:10:22 AM, you wrote: BF> They don't make a single drive larger than what Mandrake can BF> handle as far as I know. Very nice! BF> Are you planning on using RAID to group a bunch of drives BF> together? If you are planning on using RAID it's also unlikel