my new cheap green backup solution

This is my new backup solution

A sheevaplug computer running debian
And as storage an ICYBOX with a 500G sata disk

you don't get high bandwidths but for a backup storage this rules for home usage

At first I was trying to backup with rsync over ssh with blowfish
But this was to slow, I just get 50mbit
(ssh blowfish encryption was to heavy for this 1,2GHz arm processor)

so I decided to use rsync deamon
My backup is syncing now at 100mbit ;)
(I now rsync is not a backup, but I just want a copy in case of crash)

I also found that pulling the usb plug shuts down the harddisk
so I will check later to unload the usb after the backup has finished and when I got the time
It could save power