Well, not sure FAT32 gets you any further along as it has a lot of
limitations on file sizes and permissions so you're just trading one
proprietary disk format for another (lesser) one. That said, osx is unix
underneath so there is nothing preventing you from using the terminal to
run tar or rsync against a directory. For example, to backup your music
folder to another machine you could use
rsync -arv ~/Music/* [email protected]:Music
so as long as someothermachine.com supports ssh and username has login
rights, you should be able to use the above line (unless I goofed
something :)
CB
E.J. Zufelt wrote:
Good afternoon,
I was looking at Time Machine, but don't think that is what I want to
use for backup. I don't really need versioning, and don't like that
Time Machine uses an os x formatted drive.
Any suggestions for data backup to an external drive with a common
file system like FAT32, or just to a network drive?
I have used tar for years on Windows and Linux for this, is there a
better alternate approach for OS X?
Thanks,
Everett
