Recommended format for external hard disk

[Fred Smith]

On Mon, Sep 22, 2014 at 12:21:05PM -0400, ergodic wrote:
> I do too.
> Mostly I use rsync and dcfldd

me too. Using rsnapshot backing up to a locally-attached esata raid-1 device.

> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> > On 22.09.2014, Ed Greshko wrote:
> > 
> > > Does anyone actually just copy files from their system to a backup
> > > drive?
> > 
> > Yes, at least I do.
> > 
> > When data is compressed, a single bit flip can render te whole
> > archive
> > useless. So therefore I just copy the whole thing. It's easy,
> > reliable
> > and fast.
> > 
> > 
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