What's the right filesystem for your portable backup drive?
Posted by: Anonymous
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on April 17, 2008 02:52 AM
This article seems a little sparse to me.
Where's the flash-drive-specific filesystem?
What about reiser or xfs etc?
Is it simply better to use a tar archive in fat?
What are the performance differences?
My personal backup strategy is an LVM mirror - although that still doesn't protect me from the dreaded [delete] key.
If I were to choose, I'd partition my USB key into three partitions. The first ext3, the second fat32, the third ext3. The first would hold a bootable linux install which would allow me to recover any problems. The second would hold windows drivers for READING the third partition. The third would hold my data.
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What's the right filesystem for your portable backup drive?
Posted by: Anonymous [ip: 84.69.189.20] on April 17, 2008 02:52 AMWhere's the flash-drive-specific filesystem?
What about reiser or xfs etc?
Is it simply better to use a tar archive in fat?
What are the performance differences?
My personal backup strategy is an LVM mirror - although that still doesn't protect me from the dreaded [delete] key.
If I were to choose, I'd partition my USB key into three partitions. The first ext3, the second fat32, the third ext3. The first would hold a bootable linux install which would allow me to recover any problems. The second would hold windows drivers for READING the third partition. The third would hold my data.
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