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 Posted: Mon Nov 17, 2008 11:34 pm Post subject: External USB hard drive for backup? |
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Hardy Heron is running here. I need suggestions for an external (USB
connection) hard drive for backup.
Something in 160 gig would do.
Also, a GUI to the command line tools would be nice. Something like
Carbon Copy Cloner for Macintosh OSX
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| Posted: Tue Nov 18, 2008 7:14 am Post subject: Re: External USB hard drive for backup? |
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On Mon, 17 Nov 2008 15:34:13 -0800, user.ubuntu wrote:
| Quote: | Hardy Heron is running here. I need suggestions for an external (USB
connection) hard drive for backup.
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My suggestion would be to get one.
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Something in 160 gig would do.
Also, a GUI to the command line tools would be nice. Something like
Carbon Copy Cloner for Macintosh OSX
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I have no idea what "Carbon Copy Cloner for Macintosh OSX" is. What do you
want it to do?
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Sheridan Hutchinson
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| Posted: Tue Nov 18, 2008 8:31 am Post subject: Re: External USB hard drive for backup? |
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user.ubuntu@yahoo.com wrote:
| Quote: | Hardy Heron is running here. I need suggestions for an external (USB
connection) hard drive for backup.
Something in 160 gig would do.
Also, a GUI to the command line tools would be nice. Something like
Carbon Copy Cloner for Macintosh OSX
Thanks.
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The two programs that you'll probably want to look into are G4L and
Clonezilla, and they are both just a google away.
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Sheridan Hutchinson
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Michael Perry
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| Posted: Fri Nov 21, 2008 8:47 am Post subject: Re: External USB hard drive for backup? |
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On Mon, 17 Nov 2008 15:34:13 -0800 (PST), user.ubuntu@yahoo.com wrote:
| Quote: | Hardy Heron is running here. I need suggestions for an external (USB
connection) hard drive for backup.
Something in 160 gig would do.
Also, a GUI to the command line tools would be nice. Something like
Carbon Copy Cloner for Macintosh OSX
Thanks.
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Here is what I do. I have a 1tb usb drive which I bought from newegg for
a few hundred bucks. I formatted the drive with XFS. There are a number
of simple tools (often simple is best) that you could use for backups
like rsnapshot and rdiff-backup. Neither of those have fancy gui's but
rsnapshot's configuration file is pretty easy and it also has a number of
decent options for checking disk space on the backup device, etc.
I don't use a graphical tool at all. I found a few decent rsync scripts
which do what I need. I run them every night from cron and since I'm a
bit paranoid about backups, I also backup to a different system and then
that system backs up to another USB drive which is the same model and
size. The "sanity" backup occurs once or twice a week.
I think you could implement a very decent backup approach by buying a
nice usb external drive and building some basic rsync scripts or using a
simple tool like rsnapshot... |
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Trevor Hemsley
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| Posted: Fri Nov 21, 2008 3:24 pm Post subject: Re: External USB hard drive for backup? |
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On Fri, 21 Nov 2008 03:28:11 UTC in comp.os.linux.hardware, Michael Perry
<mperry@lnxpowered.org> wrote:
| Quote: | I think you could implement a very decent backup approach by buying a
nice usb external drive and building some basic rsync scripts or using a
simple tool like rsnapshot...
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You could look at duplicity
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Trevor Hemsley, Brighton, UK
Trevor dot Hemsley at ntlworld dot com |
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