Rich Hare wrote:
Petter Adsen wrote:
On Wed, 11 Feb 2015 10:28:21 -0500
Rich Hare <freeprich@gmail.com> wrote:
I am new to Debian, but learning.
My issue involves 2 TB USB hard drives.
I have been using Debian via the Knoppix bootable CD to back up a
couple of Win XP computers. Has been working wonderfully with a 500
GB drive I've used
and also a 1 TB drive.
How do you back up? What software? Is there a verbose/debug/logging
option?
Petter
Petter,
After booting into Debian, Knoppix allows me to see each drive. I do a
simple "copy" and "paste" to copy the files from the Windows machine to
the backup drive. Using Debian, I avoid several Windows issues like a
long-filename limitation and Windows' reluctance to copy "sacred"
Windows system files.
Once copied, I can re-copy the files in a Windows environment, again
using copy-and-paste. At this very minute I am using Windows to copy
several backups to the 2 TB drives.
I don't like conventional backup software which likes to compress files
and make image copies. I want to be able to go into a backup and
select (perhaps) only one particular file to restore.
Thank you for your interest in my problem!
Rich
(Petter, you have received this previously, when I responded directly
to you and failed to include the list)
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