On 22 Sep 2014 at 22:41, Ed Greshko wrote: From: Ed Greshko <ed.greshko@xxxxxxxxxxx> Date sent: Mon, 22 Sep 2014 22:41:37 +0800 To: Community support for Fedora users <users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Subject: Re: Recommended format for external hard disk Send reply to: Community support for Fedora users <users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> <mailto:users-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe> <mailto:users-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=subscribe> > 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. > Know about disk storage being expensive. My first computer had an option to add a 20M hard disk for $2,000. My computer came with dual 320K floppies. On disk images, I do a disk imaging project, and recently have done some test using a USB 3.0 128GB flash. With windows partitions I use ntfsclone backup images, and can restore a 15GB image file to a 160GB ntfs partition in about 4 1/2 minutes. Takes about 8 minutes when using a USB 2.0 port. Have also down done image of Fedora systems using both NTFS and extx partitions on external disks. Bit level images with lzop compress are the fastest, but one needs to clear free space to greatly reduce size since it backs up all sectors. > -- > 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 +----------------------------------------------------------+ Michael D. Setzer II - Computer Science Instructor Guam Community College Computer Center mailto:mikes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx mailto:msetzerii@xxxxxxxxx http://www.guam.net/home/mikes Guam - Where America's Day Begins G4L Disk Imaging Project maintainer http://sourceforge.net/projects/g4l/ +----------------------------------------------------------+ http://setiathome.berkeley.edu (Original) Number of Seti Units Returned: 19,471 Processing time: 32 years, 290 days, 12 hours, 58 minutes (Total Hours: 287,489) BOINC@HOME CREDITS ROSETTA 19916728.765824 | SETI 33798185.993905 ABC 16613838.513356 | EINSTEIN 33623582.458899 -- 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
