Mark Phillips wrote:
> I am setting up a new backuppc server. Are there any advantages to using 
> an external drive (USB or eSATA) over an internal drive to store the 
> backups? The server is an older Pentium 3 500 MHz box running Debian 
> Linux. I plan on using ssh/rsync to do the backups for other Linux 
> boxes, a Windows box, and a Mac.

USB is considerably slower than SATA/eSATA even with the same drive on 
the other end of the adapter - and the motherboard USB ports on a P3 box 
are likely to be 1.x which is too slow.  Otherwise the tradeoffs are 
fairly obvious.  The power connection can be fragile on external drives 
if you move them around much.  Also, you might want to consider some 
sort of RAID mirroring.   My favorite is a 3-member RAID1 where 2 drives 
are internal and the third is a set of external drives that are 
periodically added long enough to sync, then rotated offsite.

> If I use an external drive, can I move the drive to another backuppc 
> server and access the files? Do I have to insure the backuppc on the new 
> server has the identical configuration as the old server?

Yes, that works - and the config does need to be mostly the same.

-- 
   Les Mikesell
    lesmikesell AT gmail DOT com


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