Les Mikesell wrote: > Les Stott wrote: > >> So standard usb drives should be fine, firewire i have used, but only >> on later kernels which support the cards (fc6+), esata i'm yet to >> explore but im guessing that it too will have issues with drivers and >> kernel versions like firewire. I pretty much stick to CentOS, and >> firewire drivers aren't available in version 5, so im guessing esata >> are not also. At the end of the day speed is not my biggest concern, >> i've usually got all night to finish backups, which in most cases is >> plenty of time. >> >> oh....and i haven't used them with raid or lvm, but i'm sure they >> would work fine. > > The current centosplus kernel for centos5 has firewire added. I'm > still using cento4, and only use firewire to add an external drive > into an existing 2-drive RAID1 long enough for it to sync once a week, > then it is rotated offsite. USB should work just as well for that. > Thats good to know, i've never been down that path since for that install. We flicked to fc6 to get around that many, many months ago. Its a dedicated internal BackupPC server. Mind you.....now that i remember it.....I was sure that firewire 1394A did work, however it was Firewire 1394B which we were using that had the troubles. Have you used Firewire B with CentOS and the latest kernels?
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