Nicholas Mistry wrote: > Yesterday I was walking the streets of costco (a us bulk shopping > club) and noticed that WD has put out a new 1TB mybook w/ usb/firewire > 400/eSATA. Since we dont use our backuppc for our mission critical > backups, I thought why not build a new box with these drives. Paired > with software raid and LVM you could in essence have a very expandable > solution for home/soho users. > > Has anyone tried building a backuppc using usb drives (without a usb hub)? > > Esata would be the better choice, but would require adding a card in > most pcs.
I have used usb external drives as a way to install BackupPC to a removable drive with great success. In some cases i'm running one copy of BackupPC on the internal disks picking up internal clients and then running a second BackupPC installed on the USB disk for backing up critical data on the localhost for offsite storage. Its a bit of a process to get 2 BackupPC's running on the same machine but it can be done ;) I also have setup a rotation of usb drives where i turn off backuppc at say, 7am, allowing the client to hot-swap the usb drive for offsite storage, and then turning it back on at 7pm for nightly backups. BackupPC just picks up where it left off from the last drive. I have had no major issues with this scenario. So standard usb drives should be fine, firewire i have used, but only on later kernels which support the cards (fc6+), esata i'm yet to explore but im guessing that it too will have issues with drivers and kernel versions like firewire. I pretty much stick to CentOS, and firewire drivers aren't available in version 5, so im guessing esata are not also. At the end of the day speed is not my biggest concern, i've usually got all night to finish backups, which in most cases is plenty of time. oh....and i haven't used them with raid or lvm, but i'm sure they would work fine. Hope that helps, let me know if you want more info. Regards, Les ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Still grepping through log files to find problems? Stop. Now Search log events and configuration files using AJAX and a browser. Download your FREE copy of Splunk now >> http://get.splunk.com/ _______________________________________________ BackupPC-users mailing list [email protected] List: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users Wiki: http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net Project: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
