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

pureheart@xxxxxxxxxxx writes:

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?

I had one usb stick that refused to copy ove files reliably. If I tried to
copy a many MB file and then compare with the orignal, it always gave
errors. Be careful that yur usbstick is reliable (test it. DO an md5 on the
backup and the original) and do not use it too often.

Thanks!
Pureheart
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