On Tue, Aug 26, 2003, Kurt Wall wrote: >Quoth Bill Campbell: > >[tape drive preferences] > >> You might want to consider using external firewire hard drives. You can >> buy 120gb units from CompUSA which handle USB2 and Firewire for about $220 >> each. Given the cost of media for DLT the cost for a 120gb drive is >> comparable to the number of tapes required to back up that much data (not >> to mention the cost of the DLT drive itself), the data's much more >> accessible on a mountable file system, and it's reasonable to use multiple >> drives. Remember to keep backups off-site. > >I like this idea. Has the Linux support for FireWire become mature >enough that using an external FireWire drive as a backup is viable? >I'm supposing so, or you wouldn't have suggested it, but this is my >day to ask obvious questions.
I've been using in on SuSE 8.[12] for about six months now with excellent results (also on FreeBSD 4.8 STABLE). We've used the Adaptec and SIIG USB2/Firewire PCI cards. Bill -- INTERNET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Bill Campbell; Celestial Software LLC UUCP: camco!bill PO Box 820; 6641 E. Mercer Way FAX: (206) 232-9186 Mercer Island, WA 98040-0820; (206) 236-1676 URL: http://www.celestial.com/ ``Independent self-reliant people would be a counterproductive anachronism in the collective society of the future where people will be defined by their associations.'' 1896 John Dewey, educational philosopher, proponent of modern public schools. _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc -> http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
