[SC.LUG] Re: SC Digest, Vol 180, Issue 3

[michael_orton at tiscali.co.uk]

> 2) Although this backup will be to DVD, I am looking at external Hard
> drives or NAS drive for the future. Are these always linux 
compatible or
> are there special features I need to look for?

I got a buffalo external HD 250 gig from COMET at half price sale.
I use it to back up dual boot PC XP/SuSe.
All I had to do was to repartition half of it to ext3 using, dare I 
say, Windows version of Partition Magic-8.
but you don't need windoze to use it, the PM-8 CD is bootable.

For XP I use XXCOPY (NOT XCopy) in a batch file then compiled with 
bat2com and then a shortcut on the desktop.
In Suse I just use KDE desktop to copy over the saved_work partition 
to the Ext3 partition on the buffalo HD.
Ubuntu sees it too. As far as I know any modern HD in either an 
external USB2 caddy or in an internal IDE HD caddy will work in both 
Linux and Windoze. Note with Linux you can back up windoze, with 
windoze you cant even see the linux files.


Mike Orton
Sent using UBUNTU Linux on a scrap PC from our local Freecycle.
Try Ubuntu Linux and save landfill space!



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