[ale] [OT] External USB drives

[paul_tbot at pcartwright.com (Paul Cartwright)]

On Saturday 02 June 2007 06:18:43 pm JK wrote:
> I've been thinking about getting a (or maybe a coupla) big
> USB extrnal HDs for archival purposes. ?Amazon has a
> 500GB MyBook for $129 right now, and I think two of those
> would probably hold my net information output for the
> rest of my life. ?Any opinions or alternative recommendations?
>
> Needless to say, I'd like whatever I buy to work with
> Linux.

I got one a fwe days ago. Windows backup didn't work, because it said it 
couildn't create a file larger than 4Gb, so I just copied My Documents 
file-by-file
SUSE 10.2 I did an rsync for /home, and it worked fine.


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