Re: [rdiff-backup-users] Re: rdiff-backup-users Digest, Vol 16, Issue 9

[Stephen Boulet]

I'm trying to run rdiff-backup with a USB 2.0 external hard drive as the 
backup media, and have experienced hard lockups after starting the process -- 
no mouse or keyboard input accepted and I can't ssh into the machine.

I'm using CONFIG_USB_EHCI_HCD and CONFIG_USB_UHCI built into kernel 2.4.25 
with rdiff-backup-0.13.4.

Stephen

On Sunday 21 March 2004 04:34 pm, Dave Kempe wrote:
> In my experience, firewire is much less CPU dependent than usb2. In fact
> I think the usb2 spec is more cpu reliant. When you are busy trying to
> get rdiff-backup to do its thing, the last thing you need is the IO
> chewing all your CPU. I tried it with usb2 and it was so dodgy I gave up
> and went with firewire. I am not sure its just a linux thing... probably
> the usb2 spec
>
> dave