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Corona68

I wanted to start by thanking you for all your help; I should have posted this sooner but, the backup worked and there doesn't seem to have been any ill effects.

I have not had...

No worries. Well, I was confident the disk had USB connectivity; and it does, just not in the way I, or any normal person, need it. :wall:That bit of info certainly could have been made clearer in...

I have a problem that may not be fixable this evening. I can't, not for lack of trying for hours, find a male to male USB cable in the office. Can the connection be made with an ethernet cable? The...

So, I ran rcconf again and got the following this time:


acpid ↑ │ │

atd ...

I inputted: apt-get install rcconf

and then: rcconf

and got:
...

Regarding the distro, I used the cat /etc/issue command and received

Debian GNU/Linux 5.0 \n \l

I then used cat /proc/version and received:

Linux version 2.6.26-2-686 (Debian...

This is what I got:
processor : 0
vendor_id : GenuineIntel
cpu family : 15
model : 2
model name : Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 3.40GHz
stepping : 9
cpu MHz...

Okay, so I have a few fairly specific questions you may be able to help me with:

Based upon the tutorial you provided for the two options:

For Option A:
For the gentoo minimal liveCD, I went...

So I used the lsmod command, then the modprobe xfs command and then the lsmod command again, the difference was the following was added:

Module Size Used by
xfs ...

How long are we talking? For ~200+ GBs, hours, days? My window machine is a core2 duo e8600 running at 3.33 GHz with 3.25 GB RAM.

I think the drive comes XFS base, reformatting to another format...

Sorry, didn't realize in your earlier post you were asking for this as well.

$ cat /proc/filesystems
nodev sysfs
nodev rootfs
nodev bdev
nodev proc
nodev cgroup
nodev cpuset...

I don't know. How would I determine that? I tried a ps -aux but it didn't seem to tell me anything that made sense to me; only one file said daemon.

Yes, unfortunately, that individual is no...

Quote:
The server I want to backup is an NTFS file system.
Okay so here is the setup as best I know it. We have a...

Thanks again for your help so far Corona688.

An update so far:
I used the uname command, we're running Linux.

The decision was made to purchase a cheaper 1 TB external hard drive as a...

To Corona688
By “UNIX-friendly” I meant that I am ideally looking for something that is out of the box compatible with Unix in order to minimize additional coding and therefore potential problems...

First time poster and a very new Unix user, so I'll just pre-apologize for stupid questions now.

Does anybody know of a good RAID 1 hard drive backup that is Unix friendly? I want to avoid any...