LXer: The Debian Mac gets a backup plan

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09-20-2008, 01:00 AM	#1
LXer LXer NewsBot Registered: Dec 2005 Posts: 128,337 Rep:	LXer: The Debian Mac gets a backup plan Published at LXer: Since the Power Macintosh G4/466 has enough space for four hard drives, I decided to put a second one in the box. I set the second drive's jumpers to make it a "slave." Then I used an extra IDE cable as an "extension cable" so I could plug the second IDE input from the too-short motherboard cable into the second drive. I booted into Debian Etch, ran the GNOME Partition Editor to create an ext3 filesystem on the backup drive, then mounted it and did a few tests with rsync. Read More...

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