On 05/16 10:52 , Michael Stowe wrote: > On 2015-05-16 09:39, Ward... James Ward wrote: > > How can I format that external drive so that BackupPC can use it? > > Sure, but before starting with the immediate issue, I'd be remiss if I > didn't mention that this is probably a BAD IDEA. I'd expect performance > to be fairly dismal, and all kinds of terrible things can happen when > the drive is unplugged. For now, I'll assume you have a use case which > consists of a small amount of data you don't care about.
I'm going to echo this. I tried it once many years ago and it was indeed a /bad idea/ for the reasons mentioned above. -- Carl Soderstrom Systems Administrator Real-Time Enterprises www.real-time.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ One dashboard for servers and applications across Physical-Virtual-Cloud Widest out-of-the-box monitoring support with 50+ applications Performance metrics, stats and reports that give you Actionable Insights Deep dive visibility with transaction tracing using APM Insight. http://ad.doubleclick.net/ddm/clk/290420510;117567292;y _______________________________________________ BackupPC-users mailing list [email protected] List: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users Wiki: http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net Project: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
