[GTALUG] Portable Backup Drive Compatible with Linux (and Recommended Backup Software)

[Jason Shaw]

Getting 500 GB SSD for <$100 is probably not going to happen.

I personally like the form factor of Western Digital Passport drives as
they are USB powered,  USB 3, and small form factor.  I get decent
performance out of it, and so long as your backups are incremental, after
the initial sync, the future changesets should be fairly small.

-jason

On Wed, Feb 1, 2017 at 11:37 AM, Brad Fonseca via talk <talk at gtalug.org>
wrote:

> Hello!
>
> I am in the market for a new portable hard drive in order back up my
> files on my Linux system (running Mageia 5.1). My requirements are:
>
> - Reliable
> - Portable
> - Price Under $100
> - at least 500 GB in size
> - USB-powered (I don't want to have to deal with plugging it in)
> - no additional software included (an empty file system without having
> to immediately reformat the drive if possible)
> - Fast file transfer and retrieval rates (SSD with USB 3.0?)
>
> In addition, I'd like some recommendations regarding good Linux-based
> back-up software. I've looked at luckyBackup
> (http://luckybackup.sourceforge.net/) based on some articles I've read
> but I know this group probably has some well-tested applications they
> prefer. Ideally, the application will have good documentation and/or an
> easy-to-use interface.
>
> Thanks so much in advance!
>
> Brad
>
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