Re: Recommendation for filesystem for USB external drive for backups
On 8/13/20 13:52, rhkramer@gmail.com wrote:
> 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?
Probably. It probably would be a lot more work than on buster, work that
arguably would be spent better upgrading a system that is over two years
out of security support,
>
> * 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?
Yes.
>
Regards,
Tom Dial
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