On Monday 25 December 2006 13:07, John E. Perry wrote: > Carlos E. R. wrote: > > ... > > You need another computer to use ftp or nfs. An usb disk is just > > another "internal" disk on the system, but physically external. It > > is transparent and slower, and very handy. > > I'm aware of all this. The computer that has all the stuff is my > desktop; the computer I want to use for backup is the new laptop > (already running 10.2 with ext3 filesystems).
Do I understand that you want to back up _to_ a laptop? That seems rather odd. First of all, the disk in a laptop is far more likely to fail than one in a desktop system. Secondly, their capacity is still distinctly more limited than those of desktop or rack-mount systems, so using it as a backup might prove excessively limiting in terms of what or how much you can store. And you say this is a new laptop, so don't you want to actually use that new laptop _as_ a laptop? You know, portable computing and all that great stuff? > -- > > John Perry Randall Schulz -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
