On Mon, 23 Aug 2010 15:49:05 +0100, Lisi wrote: > I have been asked to set this HDD up as a backup device on a Lenny > system. It will primarily be used for photographs and personal files. > > http://www.amazon.co.uk/Verbatim-Desktop-External-Hard-Drive/dp/ B0017422EA > > It is currently formatted "To" and FAT32. > > What would people recommend in this situation? Reformat or use FAT32? > And if reformat, to what? I think that his slightly aged computer would > probably blow a gasket if asked to use ext4, so am wondering about ext3.
ext3 would be my choice. Fat32 will limit you at 4 GiB/file size and ext4 is still very new for my taste :-) > As of now, I am intending to clone (dd? Clonezilla?) the internal HDD > onto it and then show the user how to copy and paste new files onto it > as he goes along, with me syncing the whole thing periodically. Since I > will not be there most of the time, this strikes me as simple and > workable. But anacron may also be a possibility. Rsync would be another option to take into account for automated backups. Greetings, -- Camaleón -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/pan.2010.08.23.15.35...@gmail.com
