Re: What's the right filesystem for your portable backup drive?
Posted by: Nathan Willis
on April 17, 2008 08:09 PM
(for the record, this applies to the other questions about tar as well)
Yes, tarring your files onto the backup drive will allow you to preserve permissions. But on FAT32, you still face the maximum file size limit -- except that now you must worry about keeping the tar archive itself (holding all of your files) under the maximum size limit, not each individual file. There are other criticisms and caveats to using tar for backup that you can find by Googling, but they don't have anything to do with the filesystem format.
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Re: What's the right filesystem for your portable backup drive?
Posted by: Nathan Willis on April 17, 2008 08:09 PMYes, tarring your files onto the backup drive will allow you to preserve permissions. But on FAT32, you still face the maximum file size limit -- except that now you must worry about keeping the tar archive itself (holding all of your files) under the maximum size limit, not each individual file. There are other criticisms and caveats to using tar for backup that you can find by Googling, but they don't have anything to do with the filesystem format.
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