Jim Leonard wrote at about 23:57:53 -0500 on Wednesday, September 2, 2009:
 > 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.
 > 
 > Because rsync backups in BackupPC is implemented in Perl, the speed of 
 > your server is going to greatly limit your top speed no matter what 
 > storage solution you choose.
 > 

On slower machines, I find that ssh is more rate limiting than rsync.

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