Date: Tue, 5 Sep 2006 22:41:34 +0200 From: "Jordi Carrillo" <jordilin@gmail.com> To: "Chuck Swiger" <cswiger@mac.com> Cc: FreeBSD Mailing Lists <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Backing up Message-ID: <94ff3700609051341g57aae9b1gb7ce05f04f3c2d12@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <62577AB3-E7BF-488F-8903-8DE9BB53452B@mac.com> References: <94ff3700609051322m1c63420xe5e6e379a21906b2@mail.gmail.com> <62577AB3-E7BF-488F-8903-8DE9BB53452B@mac.com>
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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@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 > > -- http://jordilin.wordpress.com
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