[H-GEN] external USB drive
Russell Stuart
russell at stuart.id.au
Tue Dec 14 22:28:59 EST 2010
On Wed, 2010-12-15 at 12:14 +1000, Russell Stuart wrote:
> NAS's work well enough, but the cheap ones are dog slow. On the other
> hand if you have a NAS, then you can set up rdiff-backup to provide an
> Apple TimeMachine like backup system whenever your machine senses it is
> at home. Sometimes shear convenience makes up for dog slow.
I should have mentioned that to support rdiff-backup, you need a NAS
that supports rsync. This is one:
http://www.umart.com.au/newindex2.phtml?bid=5
That same thing with a 1TB drive it isn't that cheap ($300), and
probably isn't slow either.
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