Re: Backup to a USB memory stick: Some questions.

In <slrnfsca04.dif.danceswithcrows@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Dances With Crows:

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cpio and afio have their fans, but tar is still the archive format par
excellence on Unix-like systems.

FWIW...

I reformat USB sticks with ext2 to do tar backups like this without any
problems (AFAIK). As mentioned, gzip works very well for me, too.

I do notice most (all?) USB sticks seem to have a couple of (seemingly)
readonly "partitions" with Doze data/apps. There seems no way to redeem
this wastage via Linux formatting, but it doesn't seem to affect backup
reliability (AFAICT).

As mentioned, FAT32 is OK also, if individual backup files < ~2 GB.

IME; HTH...

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