On 09/22/14 22:11, Sudhir Khanger wrote: > On Monday, September 22, 2014 02:51:15 PM Ralf Corsepius wrote: >> E.g. as a Linux-only backup drive, I usually use ext4, to exchange data >> with Windows, there hardly is an alternative to ntfs, and to exchange >> data with arbitrary other systems (TVs, MediaPlayers) other restrictions >> may come into play. > I would not share same drive for backing up a Linux system on a ntfs drive > because ntfs doesn't handle permissions the same way as ext4 does. Permission > are not so much critical for music and videos but it surely messed up my dev > environment when I tried restore my backup from ntfs drive. > Does anyone actually just copy files from their system to a backup drive? Maybe it is because I started using systems when disk storage was more expensive. But I've always either used tar or cpio compressed backups. This way, no matter where the info is stored or moved around things like selinux contexts and extended attributes will be retained. -- If you can't laugh at yourself, others will gladly oblige. -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
