Re: Recommended format for external hard disk

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On Monday, September 22, 2014 10:41:37 PM Ed Greshko wrote:
> 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.

I don't have an elaborate backup system. I just up grsync to do 1:1 copy of 
the data. The answer is yes.

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