If you are building a SERVER you should never use the USB-drive
connected like that on a regulary basis, as you should keep the server
as protected from user-interaction as possible. You should rarely, if
ever, need to be in physical contact with the server. A much better
practice would be to connect to your server using Samba from your
ordinary desktop computer using gigabit LAN and make the backup from
there using some kind of sync tool (robocopy is the best tool for
windows, and it comes with Vista and is a free download from MS for
XP)so you just get the changed files and not everything.

This would also leave out any problems with ntfs and the likes as most
of you probably run Windows on your workstations.


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