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

On Feb 28, 4:13 am, Harold Stevens <woo...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
In <slrnfsca04.dif.danceswithcr...@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.

Okay...seems easist to work with, as well.
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).

Can't fdisk them away? Maybe they are hard-wired in there.

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

IME; HTH...

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Thank-you to you and "Dances w/ Crows" for the help.

Since there did not seem to be any strong calls not to use one, I
guess that is what I'll do.
(use a USB stick, that is.)

Security is not an issue since it's just me and two of my kids here,
so I guess there is no reason I cannot back things up as root.

I think I'll go ahead and format it ext2. Did you bother trying to
delete any and all partitions first
via fdisk, or just format the biggest partition there?

Thanks!
Pureheart
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