A general rsync question

[Jim Nelson]

John Bown wrote:
> Good afternoon everyone.  I have a PowerEdge 1600SC running SLES9 SP3.
> Do any of you know if it's possible to rsync said box directly to an
> external USB2 hard drive?  Many thanks.
> 
> John Bown
> 

Yes.  Barring things like /proc, it'll work just fine.  The SC1600 does not have 
USB 2.0, though, so it'll take forever and a day...

I tend to do NFS export/gigabit switch/laptop with USB 2.0 for those occasions.