Re: 2TB USB hard drive for backing up
On Sat, 21 Apr 2012 17:36:28 +0100, Sian Mountbatten wrote:
> I am going to buy a big USB hard drive to backup films, music and
> photos. In fact, I might backup the system (at least, the list of
> packages installed).
If you're using the disk to make a backup for one machine, USB (better
3.0) can be convenient and easy but despite the interface, have you
considered in buying a good external USB enclosure -with external power-
and a separate hard disk? I find it to be a better solution than those
"ready-made-and-closed" external tera-disks.
> Anybody out there tried a 2TB USB hard drive? What did you use as filing
> system. I am intending to use ext4. Any comments?
For home, I use an internal SATA disk (500 GiB) as primary backup (ext3)
and then a NAS system as a secondary (backup for the backup) level of
security, also formatted with ext3 which is the best option available for
the NAS (only ext2, ext3 or FAT32 is allowed ;-) ).
I'm against big partitions (500 GiB is the limit I have auto-imposed to
my systems) so I would make 4 slices and spread the data over them.
Anyway, I don't think you are going to have any problem to manage a
single partition of 2 TiB, even more if you plain to store plain data
(not a bootable system) there.
Greetings,
--
Camaleón
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