Am Dienstag, 24. April 2012 schrieb Camaleón: > > While I wait for the new 2 TB HDD, I am copying data across my home > > LAN to my laptop which has a 120 GB HDD. I was using the WiFi > > network provided by the computer consultants downstairs: it gave me > > 1.2 MB/s transfer rate. When I succeeded in getting the Ethernet > > working, I got 9 MB/s. I've now checked the ethernet NICs at both > > ends and they are both Gigabit devices. So I've ordered a 5m Cat5e > > ethernet cable from Amazon which should give me 120 MB/s transfer > > rate. That would certainly make it convenient for security backups. > > Yes, and that's why my primary backup is directly attached to one of > the SATA ports of the motherboard: speed between SATA buses is good > enough when using a powerful system. The average size of my /home > backup is now at ~10 GiB and I always do full (not incremental nor > differential) backups becasue 10 GiB is still a manageable size > (although for servers and workstations I do differential backups).
I use esata disks for my laptop backups. Together with Cardbus-/Expresscard esata controllers, even for the ThinkPad T520 cause its Intel only version didn´t sport an esata connector. SATA flies. A bus where practically possible speeds come quite close to the theoretic maximum. Unlike USB 2 and currently it seems also USB 3. Initial rsync based backup of 300 GB Intel SSD 320 to new 2 TB Hitachi harddisk has been 1 hour. For about 200 GiB of data, at least one million inodes, including a virtual server on the internet and the Debian on the USB-Stick in my ASUS WL-500g Premium DSL router. Current times are usually less than 10 minutes for differential backups. -- Martin 'Helios' Steigerwald - http://www.Lichtvoll.de GPG: 03B0 0D6C 0040 0710 4AFA B82F 991B EAAC A599 84C7 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/201204292021.52282.mar...@lichtvoll.de
