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Linux is linux period. Ubuntu not Linux in and of it self. There is no
special treatment that has to be done.

Tried and true methods...

Cron, tar -- if you have the disc space for the tarball and rsync and/or
scp set to the right variables. I would recommend as a home user to
almost NEVER delete stuff and if you do DON'T put it in the cron job. A
hiccup and you could be crying.

That's the easiest most automated. Me personally I have a Thermaltake X
Duet base that each section can hold a 2 TB drive and they can be copied
too at once or just copy to one and then copy across. This base is both
3.5" and 2.5" SATA drives. It has a USB or E-Sata connection. USB has
been the most reliable for me. This is 99% of my mulitimedia. Flash
drives are too expensive yet.

NOW speaking of flash drives. I use high grade chips. I prefer Kingston
or PNY. Patriot does good for SSD's. The catch is SD/HC/XC are lifetime
warranties as are Compact Flash cards. Both are also waterproof within
reason. SSD's only carry a 1-3 year warranty. That to me as a consumer
means the quality isn't up to par with the other technology. Totally
kick ass is the Micro SD. That with a 8GB card my WHOLE life, bills, etc
would fit on it. Of course I use rsync or scp for this process too.


I never recommend a GUI outside of very small sizes being transferred,
ie < 1GB. I've had too many applications crash or freeze and you can't
find out what state they are in, much less determine if they actually
completed properly.

VP
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