On Fri, 29 May 2009, Olaf Zevenboom wrote:
> I can tell you that USB is a very very very bad idea to use / trust for
> reliable backups. Why? Pumping huge amounts of data over USB to a disk
> cause things to get very hot. Often to hot to handle resulting in
> BBQ-ing the USB-SATA converter or your
Hi Erik,
I'm using exactly this model.
I've been interested by the e-sata connexion, which can reduce drastly the load
compare to the usb.
But with my Asus M2N-Pro the e-sata need to be plugged at boot to be usable.
You can unload it safetly after a backup. But I've not have success to put a
ne
Actually, the quickport pro does feature an e-sata connection (the
quickport duo has two e-sata connections), so no problems there.
The point of my question was more about the hot-swapping part of the
process. Is Bacula able to tell the operator to "swap disks" instead of
"change tapes"?
It should
Erik Logtenberg wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Does anyone have experience with the Quickport (or Quickport duo) [1] in
> combination with Bacula? I suppose one could use it to make backups to
> disk, without the need for an expensive multi-disk-enclosure (with or
> without RAID). This would work more like backu
Hi,
Does anyone have experience with the Quickport (or Quickport duo) [1] in
combination with Bacula? I suppose one could use it to make backups to
disk, without the need for an expensive multi-disk-enclosure (with or
without RAID). This would work more like backups to tape (with manual
tape excha
