On Wed, Oct 16, 2013 at 4:23 PM, Phil Reynolds
<phil-backuppc AT tinsleyviaduct DOT com> wrote:
> > if things fit on a 2.5" drive it would be fairly convenient.
>
> I'm using 3.5" drives - I have three, one of which is always at least
> 20 miles away - it is swapped with whichever of the other two is
> offline every few weeks. I used to use 2.5" drives until my storage
> needs exceeded the available capacity.

If you aren't used to backuppc, it will take much less storage than
you expect due to compression and pooling.  And if you are exceeding
the (at least) 1.5TB you can get in the 2.5" form, the performance is
going to matter.

> Unfortunately I am using USB2. An earlier attempt to use eSATA proved
> highly unreliable, though I would certainly try again if I got suitable
> drive interfaces. I will no doubt get either that or USB3 at some
> point. Until then, I'll just have to live with the performance hit.

If you have available drive bays in your computer, you can get hot
swap trayless SATA bays in either 3.5 or 2.5 sizes and just use bare
drives.

The one other thing you should do is have backuppc installed on some
other machine at the offsite location (I kept it on a VM on a laptop
that could attach to the USB) if you want to be able to recover things
easily.

-- 
   Les Mikesell
      lesmikesell AT gmail DOT com

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