[H-GEN] external USB drive

[Nick Kwiatkowski]

Russell wrote on 15/12/2010 01:28:59 PM:
> 
> 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.
> 

The link didn't work for me (as in a product), I'm a big fan of the QNAP 
devices (http://www.qnap.com/): quick, nice UI, ssh shell, good community 
support - linux based of course.

Regards



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