(Wow, I start to reply to one message in the list, and a whole bunch of others come through while I'm writing.)
On Fri, 21 May 2010 09:18:58 -0700 Tim Wescott <[email protected]> wrote: > Dirvish.org lists version 1.2.1 "Baby step incremental" and 1.3.1 > "Experimental only". The web site doesn't seem to have been updated > since 2008. > > And I recall a talk that Kieth gave a _long_ time ago pointing out > that Dirvish had trouble with USB drives. The software that I'm using is v1.2.1; it works fine. As for the USB drives, my MyBook is a USB drive, and it works quite nicely that way. It was originally on a USB 1.1 interface, which was bog slow, but on a 2.0 port it's respectably speedy. It would be nice to have an eSATA connection, but that's for the future. Just to make things simpler and bypass any HAL weirdness, I gave the backup partition a UUID, and added a UUID-type entry in /etc/fstab. Now the drive mounts automatically at boot up as /mnt/Backups -- no muss, no fuss. (I had trouble with USB drives in general. Sometimes they wouldn't be recognized, other times they'd simply fall off the system, leaving a dangling mount. Grrr.) > If possible I'd like to bring several other computers -- including > the server -- into the fold. Wife and elder son both have laptops, > even if they are Windows machines, and there's a "family" computer > that gets heavily used by younger son. I'd like them to be able to > back up to their own spaces. > > So -- you still recommending Dirvish? > Yes. Once you've wrapped your brain around the whole "Bank/Vault" metaphor, you shouldn't have any trouble adding more machines, be they Linux, Windows, or whatever. --Dale -- Never try to outstubborn a cat. _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
