On Wed, 12 Aug 2020 20:14:03 -0400 rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: > I'm getting closer to setting up a consistent backup plan, backing up > to an external USB drive. I'm wondering about a reasonable > filesystem to use, I think I want to stay in the ext2/3/4 family, and > I'm wondering if there is any good reason to use anything beyond ext2?
I use my external USB drives for off-site backup, so I use ext4 on top of an encrypted partition. http://charlescurley.com/blog/index.html Start with http://charlescurley.com/blog/posts/2019/Nov/02/backups-on-linux/ and work your way forward in http://charlescurley.com/blog/tag/backups.html. -- Does anybody read signatures any more? https://charlescurley.com https://charlescurley.com/blog/
