On 09/10/2015 02:14 PM, Rick Stevens wrote:
Sparse file support on the backup medium is also very useful if the backup program supports it. If the utility has compression support, that's also a benefit to conserve space on the backup medium.
My backup program uses rsync for the heavy lifting. As I back up to a flash drive, I ended up reformatting it to ext4 to get symlinks. I presume that anybody using an external hard drive would have it formatted appropriately.
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