On Thu, May 31, 2012 at 12:15:58PM +0100, Paul Smith wrote: > Dear All, > > I have got a new external hard disk, which I would like to use as a > mirror of my home directory (for backup purpose). What format for the > external disk filesystem do you recommend? And what the proper command > to accomplish the formatting? > ### End of Message from Paul Smith ### For best advice, more information would be helpful... For example, what's your retention policy? If you only need a single backup, and not historical backups *and* you are using LVM, you might consider just storing LVM snaphots on the backup drive. If you want a more flexible solution, you might try using rsync. Tar and dump are also still used. As far as your specific question, you need the name of the device, and I recommend creating a UDEV rule so that every time you plug in the external hard drivei, the partition you backup to gets the SAME link in /dev. This can save you from accidentally backing up to a thumbdrive that was also in the USB port, or maybe a different hard drive. Let's assume you've done this and the device symlink is /dev/backup, and let's assume that you have inserted the drive. I recommend ext3 or ext4 as they are widely used in Fedora: # /sbin/mkfs.ext4 /dev/backup -- ×-×-×-×-×-×-×-×-×-×-× Jeffrey A. Gipson ×-×-×-×-×-×-×-×-×-×-× -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
