November PLUG Meeting

[john]

Yesterday's presentation of the Web-Based Backup Software by Madison Kelly put and end to the ongoing discussion on what media is best for backup. I think her approach is the way to go.
Thanks, Madison, for having taken the trouble to enlighten us. For those who have missed the presentation they can catch up by googling 'TLE-BU'.
John

[Digimer]

Thanks for having me!

Cameron pointed out a few verbal flubs I made yesterday (like using the 'nedit programming language' ... huh?? ) but otherwise I hope it went well and I am glad to hear that I was able to contribute something.

For the record, you guys were far better behaved then the TLUG group (though I'll deny it if you tell them I said that!).

Madison

PS - TLE-BU can be found at http://tle-bu.org .

[admin]

I second John's thanks. It was very informative. Easy backup software is something I've been looking for for a few years and I appreciate your approach. Thanks for your recommendations on specific drives to use too.

[Digimer]

I am planning to put together a list of external and removable carriers that I've found to work on TLE-BU (and Linux in general) on the tle-bu.org website but that is probably a little ways off.

For the record, I have found that these work great:

- Vantec Nexstar3 NST360U2-xx (inexpensive but hard drives are not easily swapable)
- Storcase DE110 (beautiful! but pricey...)

In general, the Oxford 9xx, Cypress AT2 chipsets are known to be good USB/IDE bridges. I would trust anything from Oxford and I am gaining faith in Cypress chipsets, too.

I have found these drive to have failings:

- Kingwin ES2000 (discontinued, doesn't support greater than 137GB disks, what I at the presentation).
- Bytecc anything. (unstable)

In general, anything based on the Prolific chipset (specially the horid Prolific 3507) is garbage. They tend to work at first until you try to write data to the disk and then an overrun problem kicks in which locks up the drive AND the Linux kernel. Reported to work just as shoddy in MS OS', too.

Madison