Haines Brown wrote: > Cron automatiically backs up some partitions on my HD by means of a > script. Not sure of the size of thse backupos, but perhaps 300 Mb. > > I have been doing the backups to an external WD USB drive, and they > took around 3 hours. However, I became nervous about the condition of > the drive which is quite old, and so bought a 2 Tb replacement. Now > the back up takes 10 hours. > > The only thing that I can think of that might account for its being > slow is that my old WD drive was formatted ext4, but I thought best to > leave my new drive with NTFS.
You can create a large file in the drive, format it as ext4 and mount it. That will avoid the speed cost of NTFS. -- Joel Roth _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list [email protected] https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
