External hard drive for backup.

[elmo]

Linda Hanigan wrote:
> Just want to add a note if you use a external hardrive for automated
> nightly backups so it is left on and connected to the usb drive you
> might want to turn a fan on it. After a few months ours started having
> read write errors and was very hot to the touch. I reformatted and put a
> fan on it which seems to have solved the problem.
>
>
>   
Was this backup for Windows or ubuntu?  If it was ubuntu, what software 
did you use?


elmo