On 6/2/05, James McCarthy <mccarthyjames at gmail.com> wrote:
> Im considering buying external USB hard drives for my backup medium,
> is there any flaw to this medium when compared to tapes, and does the
> program used to back up(dd) handle well when the file system is in
> use?
> --
Out of curiosity, why do you want to use dd to do your backups? Why
not tar, rsync, etc?
Cian
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