On 4/13/11 12:15 AM, Jeffrey J. Kosowsky wrote:
>
> But dangling a USB drive has one advantage... you can just swap in a
> new drive and rotate your backups without even having to
> reboot... (note I keep my ssh keys in /etc/BackupPC rather than in
> topdir so that I really only need to have TopDir/pc, TopDir/pool,
> TopDir/cpool, and TopDir/trash directories to get it all running.

You can do this with sata drives too - even the laptop sized ones.  There are 
some trayless hotswap bays available that make it simple.  No need to put up 
with the overhead and slowness of USB.  And you can use a USB cable adapter to 
access them elsewhere if you want.

-- 
   Les Mikesell
     lesmikesell AT gmail DOT com

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