On Tue, Apr 22, 2008 at 05:07:52PM +0200, shacky wrote:
> >  - If you're using SMB or CIFS I don't think it will support the hardlinks
> >   that BackupPC requires for data pooling.>
> >  - It's going to be slow. Just buy a big cheap local disk.
> 
> And connecting the external hard drive to a USB 2.0 port of the server
> formatting it to ext3?
> I cannot add another local disk because there is no more space left in
> the rack cabinet.

That would be almost the same as a local disk, although performance will
be limited and you should never trust data which is on a single disk
only.

Sysadmin mantra: A file which is only stored at one place is considered
lost.

Maybe there are simple RAID enclosures out there with USB connectors?
You could even do software RAID over two USB-connected disks.

Bye,

Tino.

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