Re: Transportable HDD recommendations or warnings

2006-11-08 Thread Dan Jenkins
Ted Roche wrote: I've got a client who would like to image his half-dozen workstations and store the images off-site as part of a disaster recovery plan. We're planning on using Knoppix and partimage to snapshot the machines, The workstations are run-of-the-mill Dell Dimensions, fairly new,

Re: Transportable HDD recommendations or warnings

2006-11-08 Thread Jeff Macdonald
Apologies to Dan as he'll be seeing this message twice. Ted Roche wrote: I've got a client who would like to image his half-dozen workstations and store the images off-site as part of a disaster recovery planSo have you looked at S3 at Amazon? Just do all this stuff over the net. -- Jeff

Re: Transportable HDD recommendations or warnings

2006-11-08 Thread Ted Roche
On Nov 7, 2006, at 11:16 AM, Ted Roche wrote: I've got a client who would like to image his half-dozen workstations and store the images off-site as part of a disaster recovery plan. Follow-up: Picked up a Seagate 250 Gb drive at Circuit City last night for $135. Tested it out on my

Re: Transportable HDD recommendations or warnings

2006-11-08 Thread Michael ODonnell
Follow-up: Picked up a Seagate 250 Gb drive at Circuit City last night for $135. ...and for my follow-up (not that anybody asked) I'm happy to report that I was able to back-port USB support from the kernel.org/2.4.33 sources into the RHEL3 2.4.21-ish sources and, so far, it's looking pretty

Re: Transportable HDD recommendations or warnings

2006-11-08 Thread Ted Roche
On Nov 8, 2006, at 12:02 PM, Michael ODonnell wrote: ...and for my follow-up (not that anybody asked) I'm happy to report that I was able to back-port USB support from the kernel.org/2.4.33 sources into the RHEL3 2.4.21-ish sources and, so far, it's looking pretty stable. That's great. Now,

Re: Transportable HDD recommendations or warnings

2006-11-08 Thread Michael ODonnell
...and for my follow-up (not that anybody asked) I'm happy to report that I was able to back-port USB support from the kernel.org/2.4.33 sources into the RHEL3 2.4.21-ish sources and, so far, it's looking pretty stable. That's great. Now, is this USB for storage devices or for HID (Human

Re: Transportable HDD recommendations or warnings

2006-11-08 Thread Ben Scott
On 11/8/06, Michael ODonnell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ... the box would wedge tightly while accessing Storage devices, but after a lot of analysis it became clear to me that the ehci-hcd module was likely the primary culprit. Further translation: The bug(s) were in the Linux kernel's use of

Transportable HDD recommendations or warnings

2006-11-07 Thread Ted Roche
I've got a client who would like to image his half-dozen workstations and store the images off-site as part of a disaster recovery plan. We're planning on using Knoppix and partimage to snapshot the machines, The workstations are run-of-the-mill Dell Dimensions, fairly new, so USB 2.0

Re: Transportable HDD recommendations or warnings

2006-11-07 Thread Ben Scott
On 11/7/06, Ted Roche [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I see the local big boxes have regular promotions for Western Digitals, Seagates, Maxtors and SimpleTechs. Any recommendations pro- or con- or are these pretty much commodity items? From what I've seen, they're pretty much commodity items.

Re: Transportable HDD recommendations or warnings

2006-11-07 Thread Paul Lussier
Ted Roche [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I see the local big boxes have regular promotions for Western Digitals, Seagates, Maxtors and SimpleTechs. Any recommendations pro- or con- or are these pretty much commodity items? How often are you planning on transporting these drives around? Keep in

Re: Transportable HDD recommendations or warnings

2006-11-07 Thread Michael ODonnell
The workstations are run-of-the-mill Dell Dimensions, fairly new, so USB 2.0 should be acceptable. I haven't done much with USB storage devices so all I have to go on is my current situation, which isn't much fun. I've just started wrestling with some Dell boxes running RHEL3 (based on

Re: Transportable HDD recommendations or warnings

2006-11-07 Thread Chip Marshall
On November 07, 2006, Ted Roche sent me the following: I see the local big boxes have regular promotions for Western Digitals, Seagates, Maxtors and SimpleTechs. Any recommendations pro- or con- or are these pretty much commodity items? I've been poking around a little lately looking for

Re: Transportable HDD recommendations or warnings

2006-11-07 Thread Ben Scott
On 11/7/06, Michael ODonnell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Looking through the comments in the source codes for the USB drivers I gather that ... it's a fscking miracle that things work as well as they do. Yah, I've heard the same. Standards compliance is, apparently, considered optional. I

Re: Transportable HDD recommendations or warnings

2006-11-07 Thread Tom Buskey
On 11/7/06, Ted Roche [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've got a client who would like to image his half-dozen workstations and store the images off-site as part of a disaster recovery plan. We're planning on using Knoppix and partimage to snapshot the machines, I see the local big boxes have