[LUNI] USB connected disk drive - connecting to Windows and Linux

[Mark Stuart Burge]

Good point.

Thinking back to the last time I used that method, I was not using a 
compressed backup file, but using rdiff-backup

http://www.nongnu.org/rdiff-backup/

It creates a direct copy of the original location in a folder of your 
choice, then works like an incremental backup, just overwriting the 
files that have changed and adding the ones that are new.

You do need to keep your eye on it though to make sure it doesnt go bad 
(I usually recommend multiple external drives, to keep at least one off 
site copy while the other is being used overnight.

This worked in my case, as I wanted to have a recovery method that 
didn't lock me out due to permissions - making it easy to get users up 
and running on their own machines, whilst server hardware was being 
repaired. (somewhat crude in the IT world, but faster and more 
productive for a small office of 20 users or so.

As the data was in users' own sub folders, it would make it easy to run 
to another machine and get things happening without waiting for 
extraction etc.


I think ntfs is no longer a problem, but back then it was.



Trev Peterson wrote:
> If the backup data is fairly large (6 - 7+ GB) I do not think this will
> work since fat32 has a pretty small max file size (4GB).  This can also
> cause problem if you have any large files on the filesystem to be
> backed-up.
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