On Wed, Apr 8, 2009 at 3:13 PM, Les Mikesell <lesmikesell AT gmail DOT com> 
wrote:
> a VMware/virtualbox or other virtual machine image that could run on any
> machine that would be able to access this disk via a USB adapter for
> quick emergency restores.  Does anyone have experience with any of the
> virtual machine's USB handling to know if this would be practical and
> which technology would be best at it?

Virtualbox handles USB devices (like harddisks) good. You can start
virtualbox on your windows/linux box, boot your virtual debian,
install backuppc and mount the USB device on the backuppc directory
:-) (and don't forget to config/backup your /etc/backuppc dir)

cheers
Kristof

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