On Wed, 2012-06-06 at 16:58 +0100, Paul Smith wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 6, 2012 at 3:05 PM, Roberto Ragusa wrote:
> >>> Are you planning to rsync, twice, once to each drive, or are you looking
> >>> to establish a software raid 1 between two attached usb drives?
> >>
> >> Thanks, Jeff. I am planning to
On Wed, Jun 6, 2012 at 3:05 PM, Roberto Ragusa wrote:
>>> Are you planning to rsync, twice, once to each drive, or are you looking
>>> to establish a software raid 1 between two attached usb drives?
>>
>> Thanks, Jeff. I am planning to rsync twice, once to each drive.
>
> Good idea. Sync them in d
On 05/31/2012 05:03 PM, Paul Smith wrote:
> On Thu, May 31, 2012 at 4:01 PM, Jeff Gipson wrote:
>> Are you planning to rsync, twice, once to each drive, or are you looking
>> to establish a software raid 1 between two attached usb drives?
>
> Thanks, Jeff. I am planning to rsync twice, once to e
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On 06/01/2012 10:06 PM, Thibault Nélis wrote:
> On 06/01/2012 04:45 PM, Bryn M. Reeves wrote:
>> Or is the ext4 code able to mount ext3 now (I didn't think so)?
>
> I'm pretty sure it is fully backward compatible yes, even with ext2
> from what I read
Am 01.06.2012 23:06, schrieb Thibault Nélis:
> On 06/01/2012 04:45 PM, Bryn M. Reeves wrote:
>> Or is the ext4 code able to mount ext3 now (I didn't think so)?
>
> I'm pretty sure it is fully backward compatible yes, even with ext2 from what
> I read.
> It simply doesn't use all the new and f
On 06/01/2012 04:45 PM, Bryn M. Reeves wrote:
Or is the ext4 code able to mount ext3 now (I didn't think so)?
I'm pretty sure it is fully backward compatible yes, even with ext2 from
what I read. It simply doesn't use all the new and fancy features
obviously.
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On 06/01/2012 01:14 PM, Alan Cox wrote:
>> Aside from some clear performance wins for not-that-uncommon
>> workloads (deleting lots of large files, storing large images
>> etc) there's the fact that most of the attention upstream these
>> days is go
> Aside from some clear performance wins for not-that-uncommon workloads
> (deleting lots of large files, storing large images etc) there's the
> fact that most of the attention upstream these days is going into ext4
> - - the earlier ext* file systems are pretty much in maintenance mode today.
Yo
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Onderwerp: Re: Filesystem format for external hard disk
On Thu, May 31, 2012 at 03:01:09PM +0100, Bryn M. Reeves
On 05/31/2012 05:09 PM, Bryn M. Reeves wrote:
I tend to encourage people to pick ext4 over ext3 on modern hardware
and software.
Aside from some clear performance wins for not-that-uncommon workloads
(deleting lots of large files, storing large images etc) there's the
fact that most of the atten
On Thu, May 31, 2012 at 4:43 PM, Jeff Gipson wrote:
>> Where do you place your backups, Jeff? :-)
>
> Well, I just started using SpiderOak. Jury's still out. Their
> deduplication and compression ratio seems pretty good (185GiB on my disk
> becomes 145GiB in their system), and they support file ve
> Where do you place your backups, Jeff? :-)
>
> Paul
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Well, I just started using SpiderOak. Jury's still out. Their
deduplication and compression ratio seems pretty good (185GiB on my disk
becomes 145GiB in their system), and they support file versioning, but
don't seem to have a point-in-t
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On 05/31/2012 04:01 PM, Jeff Gipson wrote:
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>> I have already an external disk formatted with ext3, but for
>> safety reasons I am now wanting to have two external disks with
>> the same backups. When I formatted the first external disk, I did
>> not
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On 05/31/2012 03:58 PM, Jeff Gipson wrote:
> That's a good point. I guess now would be a good time to mention
> that a volume snapshot != backup (see below), however, I've heard
> of snapshots sometimes being used to create a "still" or
> "point-in-tim
On Thu, May 31, 2012 at 4:01 PM, Jeff Gipson wrote:
>
>> I have already an external disk formatted with ext3, but for safety
>> reasons I am now wanting to have two external disks with the same
>> backups. When I formatted the first external disk, I did not know
>> about ext4 (only knew about ext3
On Thu, May 31, 2012 at 3:58 PM, Jeff Gipson wrote:
> As far as using an external drive is concerned, for my backups, I opted
> not to do this, because when my house burns or gets blown away by a
> tornado, or is robbed (in which case the burgler is likely to take
> everything attached to the comp
> I have already an external disk formatted with ext3, but for safety
> reasons I am now wanting to have two external disks with the same
> backups. When I formatted the first external disk, I did not know
> about ext4 (only knew about ext3). So, from what you are suggestion,
> ext4 is superior t
On Thu, May 31, 2012 at 03:01:09PM +0100, Bryn M. Reeves wrote:
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> On 05/31/2012 02:35 PM, Jeff Gipson wrote:
> > On Thu, May 31, 2012 at 12:15:58PM +0100, Paul Smith wrote:
> >> Dear All,
> >>
> >> I have got a new external hard disk, which I wo
On Thu, May 31, 2012 at 3:01 PM, Bryn M. Reeves wrote:
>>> I have got a new external hard disk, which I would like to use as
>>> a mirror of my home directory (for backup purpose). What format
>>> for the external disk filesystem do you recommend? And what the
>>> proper command to accomplish the
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On 05/31/2012 02:35 PM, Jeff Gipson wrote:
> On Thu, May 31, 2012 at 12:15:58PM +0100, Paul Smith wrote:
>> Dear All,
>>
>> I have got a new external hard disk, which I would like to use as
>> a mirror of my home directory (for backup purpose). What f
On Thu, May 31, 2012 at 12:15:58PM +0100, Paul Smith wrote:
> Dear All,
>
> I have got a new external hard disk, which I would like to use as a
> mirror of my home directory (for backup purpose). What format for the
> external disk filesystem do you recommend? And what the proper command
> to acco
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On 05/31/2012 12:15 PM, Paul Smith wrote:
> I have got a new external hard disk, which I would like to use as
> a mirror of my home directory (for backup purpose). What format for
> the external disk filesystem do you recommend? And what the proper
> c
Dear All,
I have got a new external hard disk, which I would like to use as a
mirror of my home directory (for backup purpose). What format for the
external disk filesystem do you recommend? And what the proper command
to accomplish the formatting?
Thanks in advance,
Paul
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