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Rsnapshot installed...nothing is happening...
Hi all, I've just installed this addon and commented out the following line in the addons-config/rsnapshot/rsnapshot.conf file : backup /etc/ localhost/ which should backup my etc folder to the ...
michelefaccini wrote: what's the appropriate FS type to format my USB stick if I want to save entire nas directories ? Should I use EXT3 or EXT4.
FAT32 or NTFS can't be a chosen, right ?
I use EXT4, but NTFS is probably a better choice if you also need easy, direct access to the USB drive from Windows. Some of EXT3/4's obscure file permissions and properties are not supported by NTFS (and vice-versa), so those properties might be lost in the backup/restore process. However, the data itself (and the major file permissions and properties) will be preserved.
I would not use FAT32, as it has multiple limitations including lack of support for files larger than 4GB.
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