On Sunday 03 October 2004 04:36, Bob Hillegas wrote: > Is anyone using a REV drive under Fedora Core 2 as a backup device? > > I just installed my internal scsi REV drive and tested writing to it. > Everything looked great. Then I tried to backup about 5 gigs of data to > it using rsync -auR /home/ /mnt/rev/. > > The copy started but when I came back 5 hours later it had stalled my > system to a crawl, exhausted most of my 1 gig of memory. It's not really any help to you but I have been using a REV USB external for about a month now without problems. My system is FC2 with a RYO 2.6.6 SMP kernel and I use dar (highly recommended) to perform nightly backups. As yet I have had no need to reformat. Cheers... -Robin. -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Robin Atwood. "This tag line left intentionally blank" ----------------------------------------------------------------------
