Re: Recommendation for filesystem for USB external drive for backups
On Thursday, August 13, 2020 01:45:59 PM Tom Dial wrote:
> Debian ZFS root (and boot) is not *that* hard; see the instructions at
>
> https://openzfs.github.io/openzfs-docs/Getting%20Started/Debian/Debian%20B
> uster%20Root%20on%20ZFS.html
>
> They certainly are not harder than installing early Debian releases (as
> I remember it from around 20 years ago, and should not be hard for
> anyone building a backup system and server. Installation as an
> additional file system should not be notably different from installing a
> file system package from main, except for the notice the GPL
> incompatibility notice that will pop up during installation.
>
> I would recommend installing from buster-backports to get the current
> openzfs release which includes improvements (notably native encryption)
> as well as fixes.
Two questions:
* Most of my backup will be done from a Wheezy system -- can I install ZFS
on Wheezy?
* If I plug the USB drive into another machine without ZFS installed --
hmm, well I guess I'd have to install ZFS to use the drive?
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