External Backup Disk Drive

[George Dvorak]

i would look at the drive with gparted or with KDE partition manager and
see what that finds.

I use baclkintime for my backups for a couple of years now and am very
pleased with it.


On Fri, Jun 21, 2013 at 10:07 PM, Ramesh Rao <rameshrao55 at hotmail.com>wrote:

> Thanks Phil.
>
> Meanwhile in the last hour I tried to connect the device - unfortunately I
> don't see any light (any sort) on the device. Nor any "icon" opens up on
> the monitor.
>
> "Dolphin" File Manager does not show any new mounted drives either. The
> device does not seem to have been "detected" at all.
>
> Am I missing something?
>
> Thanks,
> Ramesh
>
>
>
> > Date: Sat, 22 Jun 2013 14:20:41 +1000
> > From: phil_lor at bigpond.com
> > To: kubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com
> > Subject: Re: External Backup Disk Drive
>
> >
> > On 22/06/13 12:01, Ramesh Rao wrote:
> > > All,
> > >
> > > I just today bought Seagate Backup Plus (2TB) external drive. It seems
> > > to come with Windows/Mac2 compatible auto-backup software.
> > >
> > > My question is :
> > >
> > > 1. the auto backup software may not work under Linux. In that event
> > > would manual backup be possible?
> > >
> > > 2. Kubuntu has "Lucky Backup" software. Would that work on these
> Seagate
> > > Drives. (I personally see no reason not to..)
> > >
> > > I just wanted to be sure..
> > >
> >
> > I've used Luckybackup for quite awhile and it works well. I have two
> > external USB drives for backups, just in case.
> >
> > --
> > Regards,
> > Phil
> >
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