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Neil Bothwick <neil@××××××××××.uk> wrote: |
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> On Wed, 7 May 2008 09:57:02 +0200, Dirk Heinrichs wrote: |
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>> > rsync is good, but has its own disadvantages, notably the lack of |
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>> > compression and the reliance on the destination filesystem to preserve |
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>> > permissions. |
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>> Can you elaborate more on the latter, please? What exactly is rsync |
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>> relying on and which fs wouldn't meet the requirements. |
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> FAT on an external drive, |
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Why not put ext* or reiserfs or whatever on such a drive? |
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> or some of the online backup systems. |
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That's really a problem, yes. But I was talking about backup-to-disk. |
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While it might be, that you can mount some of the online backup systems |
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as a fs, it mustn't be so. |
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Michael |
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