Re: [opensuse] firewire drives & backups

2007-03-13 Thread Greg Freemyer
On 3/13/07, Jack Malone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > 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 direct

Re: [opensuse] firewire drives & backups

2007-03-13 Thread Greg Freemyer
On 3/13/07, Dave Howorth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Greg Freemyer wrote: > Don't ignore eSata (external sata) for the same purpose. > > (If you don't have an eSata connector you can get a Sata <--> eSata > cable for $10 or $20, just be sure it is 300 Gbit/sec rated.) > > Especially for Linux I be

RE: [opensuse] firewire drives & backups

2007-03-13 Thread 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 fil

Re: [opensuse] firewire drives & backups

2007-03-13 Thread Dave Howorth
Greg Freemyer wrote: > Don't ignore eSata (external sata) for the same purpose. > > (If you don't have an eSata connector you can get a Sata <--> eSata > cable for $10 or $20, just be sure it is 300 Gbit/sec rated.) > > Especially for Linux I believe the sata drivers are more actively > maintaine

Re: [opensuse] firewire drives & backups

2007-03-12 Thread John Andersen
On Monday 12 March 2007, Jack Malone wrote: > I’m 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 th

Re: [opensuse] firewire drives & backups

2007-03-12 Thread Teruel de Campo MD
On Mon, 2007-03-12 at 18:30 -0400, Greg Freemyer wrote: > On 3/12/07, Jack Malone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I'm 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

Re: [opensuse] firewire drives & backups

2007-03-12 Thread Randall R Schulz
Jack, Would you please: a) Trim quoted material from your replies. b) Configure your mail client to use conventional quoting marks. An alternative to (b) is to get a better mail client. RRS -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [opensuse] firewire drives & backups

2007-03-12 Thread Randall R Schulz
On Monday 12 March 2007 17:31, Carlos E. R. wrote: > The Monday 2007-03-12 at 19:28 -0400, Greg Freemyer wrote: > > > AFAIK, you can not hotplug them yet. > > > > Initial vanilla kernel support went in last summer (2.6.18 IIRC). > > Ah, interesting... I guess the wikipedia is outdated :-) I think

RE: [opensuse] firewire drives & backups

2007-03-12 Thread Jack Malone
> > > > > > Jack Malone > > Don't ignore eSata (external sata) for the same purpose. > > (If you don't have an eSata connector you can get a Sata <--> eSata > cable for $10 or $20, just be sure it is 300 Gbit/sec rated.) > > Especially for Linux I believe the sata drivers are more actively > main

Re: [opensuse] firewire drives & backups

2007-03-12 Thread Carlos E. R.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 The Monday 2007-03-12 at 19:28 -0400, Greg Freemyer wrote: > > AFAIK, you can not hotplug them yet. > > Initial vanilla kernel support went in last summer (2.6.18 IIRC). Ah, interesting... I guess the wikipedia is outdated :-) - -- Cheers,

Re: [opensuse] firewire drives & backups

2007-03-12 Thread Greg Freemyer
On 3/12/07, Jack Malone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: -Original Message- From: Greg Freemyer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, March 12, 2007 5:31 PM To: opensuse@opensuse.org Subject: Re: [opensuse] firewire drives & backups On 3/12/07, Jack Malone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]&

Re: [opensuse] firewire drives & backups

2007-03-12 Thread Greg Freemyer
On 3/12/07, Carlos E. R. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 The Monday 2007-03-12 at 18:30 -0400, Greg Freemyer wrote: > Don't ignore eSata (external sata) for the same purpose. AFAIK, you can not hotplug them yet. Initial vanilla kernel support went in

RE: [opensuse] firewire drives & backups

2007-03-12 Thread Jack Malone
-Original Message- From: Greg Freemyer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, March 12, 2007 5:31 PM To: opensuse@opensuse.org Subject: Re: [opensuse] firewire drives & backups On 3/12/07, Jack Malone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm looking for anyone backing up

Re: [opensuse] firewire drives & backups

2007-03-12 Thread Carlos E. R.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 The Monday 2007-03-12 at 18:30 -0400, Greg Freemyer wrote: > Don't ignore eSata (external sata) for the same purpose. AFAIK, you can not hotplug them yet. - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/L

Re: [opensuse] firewire drives & backups

2007-03-12 Thread jdd
Jack Malone wrote: I’m 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 proce

Re: [opensuse] firewire drives & backups

2007-03-12 Thread Greg Freemyer
On 3/12/07, Jack Malone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I'm 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 th