Re: Recommendation for filesystem for USB external drive for backups
On Wed, 12 Aug 2020 20:14:03 -0400
rhkramer@gmail.com wrote:
> I'm getting closer to setting up a consistent backup plan, backing up
> to an external USB drive. I'm wondering about a reasonable
> filesystem to use, I think I want to stay in the ext2/3/4 family, and
> I'm wondering if there is any good reason to use anything beyond ext2?
I use my external USB drives for off-site backup, so I use ext4 on top
of an encrypted partition.
http://charlescurley.com/blog/index.html
Start with
http://charlescurley.com/blog/posts/2019/Nov/02/backups-on-linux/ and
work your way forward in http://charlescurley.com/blog/tag/backups.html.
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