Backing up

[Jordi Carrillo]

I was thinking about using rdiff-backup to do incremental backups and ext2
type filesystem, as I don't use windows at all. Ext2 because I sometimes
switch to Linux. I don't know if FFS is recognized by Linux.

2006/9/5, Chuck Swiger <cswiger at mac.com>:
>
> On Sep 5, 2006, at 1:22 PM, Jordi Carrillo wrote:
> > I use FreeBSD as my primary Desktop. I have purchased an external
> > usb hard
> > drive to perform backups of my home directory. What type of
> > filesystem do
> > you recommend for this drive, ext2?, fat?...
>
> If you are only using FreeBSD, formatting it in the native FFS or
> FFS2 would make the most sense.
>
> If you want to access these files from Windows or some other
> operating system, using FAT might be reasonable, although you should
> probably archive your files using tar, pax, dump, etc to preserve
> filesystem metadata that would otherwise be lost.
>
> --
> -Chuck
>
>


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