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Can I use an external USB HD?

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jrohde
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Can I use an external USB HD?

Post by jrohde »

Hi,

I have purchased a Bubba, but I haven't received it yet. I was wondering, if I am able to use an external USB harddisk? The documentation mentions Memory Sticks, but are they equivalent with hard disks?

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Jakob
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pa
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Post by pa »

Yes it is possible but not recommended.
The reason for this is that although Bubba has USB2.0 it is only fullspeed (12Mbit/s) not Hi-speed, meaning that it will be very slow.

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_erwin_
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Post by _erwin_ »

Daily backup on external USB drive with rsync works fine. Most of the days there is only some e-mail to sync, which only takes a few minutes. I use ext3 file system on USB drive to avoid FAT32 related naming problems.

rsync -ax --stats --delete /home /etc /media/usbdrive

http://rsync.samba.org/

Erwin
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