I’ve been using BackupPC to back up the computers in the house. This is a Linux backup program that connects to each client over SSH and transfers data to a backup pool. This protects each PC from hardware and human failures, but if there’s a site disaster, the data’s gone. To mitigate that risk, I was archiving the backups to DVD’s and storing them off site. Of course, copying a lot of data to DVD’s is inconvenient and takes a lot of time, so it didn’t always get done. <\/p>\n
As part the the HTPC project, I knew I’d need a large amount of storage, so a NAS was in order. But to back up that much data to DVD’s wasn’t feasible. I needed a way to back up the NAS’s data to off site storage. Or so I thought. I heard about the ioSafe Solo, a waterproof and fireproof external hard drive with a USB interface. It holds 2 TB, which is plenty. And since it can survive a fire or flood, there’s no need to move it off site. Problem solved!<\/p>\n
So, the first test was to connect it to the BackupPC server and run an archive to it. The archive was about 92 GB and started at 7 am. It was still running that night. And the next morning. It finished in just shy of 24 hours. That didn’t sound right. I ran a throughput test using Hooking the drive up to my desktop and running hdparm resulted in a little over 23 MB\/sec. Much better. BTW, neither machine had trouble connecting to the drive, despite the manufacturer’s support of only Windows and Mac.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I’ve been using BackupPC to back up the computers in the house. This is a Linux backup program that connects to each client over SSH and transfers data to a backup pool. This protects each PC from hardware and human failures, but if there’s a site disaster, the data’s gone. To mitigate that risk, I […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-663","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.familytidings.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/663","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.familytidings.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.familytidings.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.familytidings.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.familytidings.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=663"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.familytidings.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/663\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":665,"href":"https:\/\/www.familytidings.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/663\/revisions\/665"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.familytidings.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=663"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.familytidings.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=663"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.familytidings.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=663"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}sudo hdparm -t \/dev\/sdc<\/code> and it came up at 1.2 MB\/sec. The other drives in that machine have throughputs in the 20’s. I was concerned until I realized that old machine has USB 1.0 with a maximum throughput of 12 Mbit\/sec, or 1.5 MB\/sec.<\/p>\n