A while ago, when I had backup issues with the logical volume on the external MediaSonic Pro enclosure, I removed the LV and formatted the two drives to xfs upon advice here. My dirvish backup is on /dev/sde1 and when that's done rsync copies daily changes to /dev/sdf1.
I've since learned that xfs has issues and can confirm that's so: the main backup drive, /dev/sde1, keeps reporting errors to the kernel which advises me to run xfs_repair. (The second backup drive, /dev/sdf1, had to be repaired one time.) I bought a 1T flash drive (each backup hard drive has ~500G on it) and today's the day to replace xfs with ext4 on both /dev/sde1 and /dev/sdf1. It should be a simple process and I'm asking for validation (or correction, if warranted) for it: 1. Use fdisk to install ext4 on 1T flash drive. 2. Mount flash drive on /mnt. 3. Use scp -R to copy all files from /dev/sde1 to /mnt. 4. Use cfdisk to remove xfs from /dev/sde1 and replace it with ext4. 5. Use scp -R to copy files from /mnt to /dev/sde1. Then do the same for /dev/sdf1. Your thoughts? TIA, Rich
