REV drive as backup corrupted....
Robin Atwood
robin.atwood at attglobal.net
Sun Oct 3 15:53:10 UTC 2004
On Sunday 03 October 2004 04:36, Bob Hillegas wrote:
> Is anyone using a REV drive under Fedora Core 2 as a backup device?
>
> I just installed my internal scsi REV drive and tested writing to it.
> Everything looked great. Then I tried to backup about 5 gigs of data to
> it using rsync -auR /home/ /mnt/rev/.
>
> The copy started but when I came back 5 hours later it had stalled my
> system to a crawl, exhausted most of my 1 gig of memory.
It's not really any help to you but I have been using a REV USB external for
about a month now without problems. My system is FC2 with a RYO 2.6.6 SMP
kernel and I use dar (highly recommended) to perform nightly backups. As yet
I have had no need to reformat.
Cheers...
-Robin.
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