-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 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 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJNOJ3KAAoJEKABT2DAOAZyj3UH/2u7VhsxVcN24jzC4D3XoH1c HOeSGoUqrRBjWrN0IGjPwWNHayvyu2UrWkDz+YmCYGHBYW8SHQRN5CX3igCBb6sL gRfeorQ/i9ODgc498VTMIvrDm26uWsoBdo+JLyw+NwxSAB3ymyxK+V4XnquHEt5F 603dPzRugv1un4cQ9NgQ95qS3dfPde/pwDY03BqdzoTOdJA11pLjc8B8YUOwsoTK Vw9C9eWGVApsWwzyFsxyHzOK2bWtlGSSaLCON2FWt6IbPSldakbABd2qKGmnA7uQ TJYp4jB5mZ9Ugqd8ptqDFZT5ftmxAsLBTjE2oe1qGPey8cDv0IGmqpr0A+HZeyw= =9YaF -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss