backup

[Lucas Holt]

On Mar 3, 2004, at 8:59 AM, Toomas Aas wrote:

> Hi!
>
> On Tue, 24 Feb 2004 9:32 am, Richard Beyer wrote:
>>> We're currently doing a back up of a FreeBSD 4.9 (2) server by
>>> plugging a USB external drive in and then doing
>>> cp /dev/ad0 /dev/da0
>>>
>>> This takes about 30 hours, (USB 1).
>
>

Could you get a USB 2 PCI card?  Presuming the drive and freebsd 
support it, i would think it could make things a bit faster.  USB2 is 
faster than firewire 400 which is what most pcs have.  Apple just 
starting shipping Firewire 800 last year (its their standard).

Lucas Holt
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