Randall R Schulz wrote: > 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? > > Besides, all that extra data will make the laptop too heavy to carry. ;-)
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