On Friday 17 Jul 2009 08:44:40 Tim wrote: > On Thu, 2009-07-16 at 10:23 -0400, Dr. Michael J. Chudobiak wrote: > > I found USB drives to be hugely unreliable. I ended up removing the > > disks from their enclosures and using them inside the main computer > > chassis, like a normal drive. > > > > I think something is buggy with the USB drive implementation, > > I'm beginning to wonder if that's be the case, whether it's a general > problem, or just certain products are crap. > > > You might have better luck with eSATA drives, rather than USB. > > > > For my backups, I prefer to use something like rsnapshot > > (http://rsnapshot.org/) to copy files to a remote live computer. This > > works very well and very reliably, for me. > > In my main case, this is a laptop, so putting a drive inside isn't > possible, and it has no esata. I'd been backing up to a server, and the > ill-fated external drive. > > I like the idea of a removable drive, so a backup can be made and easily > unplugged, as security against system/electrical screwups, and stored > separately. But it seems less than reliable. > As well as the IcyBox cage mentioned elsewhere, I have a Freecom Classic SL250. For the last couple of years or so I've been using to backup the whole of /home and /etc when I want to make a truly clean install of a distro. I've been 100% happy with it. > I've tried those trays you slot in and out of a 5 inch bay, and was less > than impressed (overheats, plastic, crappy fan, etc.), and it's only > useable where you have a tray to plug into. The external drive in a box > *seemed* a good alternative idea. > Anne -- New to KDE4? - get help from http://userbase.kde.org Just found a cool new feature? Add it to UserBase
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