Or is there another backup method I should be using?
Linux->Linux
Nothing wrong with backing up files to a Windows machine
Except that when moving data from a more capable machine to a less capable machine, the less capable machine may lose data. For instance, moving data from an old Mac to a FAT filesystem would lose the resource fork and other information that was essential to the Mac, but had no analogue on Win32. Similarly, Unix filesystems forbid only the '/' character in filenames, and allow any other byte value including UTF-8 extended bytes. Windows filesystems are less capable, so it may not be possible to use them as a backup for a more capable system.
Out of curiosity, why would you copy the files as they are one by one instead of a large, compressed chunk?
Presumably, John expects the changes between backup intervals to be less than the compressed size of the full system.
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