Filesystem format for external hard disk

Paul Smith phhs80 at gmail.com
Wed Jun 6 15:58:46 UTC 2012


On Wed, Jun 6, 2012 at 3:05 PM, Roberto Ragusa <mail at robertoragusa.it> wrote:
>>> Are you planning to rsync, twice, once to each drive, or are you looking
>>> to establish a software raid 1 between two attached usb drives?
>>
>> Thanks, Jeff. I am planning to rsync twice, once to each drive.
>
> Good idea. Sync them in different times; e.g. the first one every day and
> the other one every week. In this way you have an older backup if you want
> to restore something deleted by mistake.
> And keep the "weekly" one in a different (more secure) place. ;-)
>
> As you use rsync, you may be interested in
>
> rsync -av --delete /home/psmith/ --link-dest /media/IOmega/backups/myhome/20120605 /media/IOmega/backups/myhome/20120606
>
> You can easily have 60 backups taken each day of the last two months and
> restore whatever you have deleted or messed up (e.g. diff on what the file is and
> what the file was).
>
> That is the setup I'm using (with dmcrypt, so to not have to worry about
> a stolen backup disk).

Thanks, Roberto, for your helpful advice and suggestions!

Paul


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