On Fri, Aug 07, 2020 at 03:27:43PM -1000, Joel Roth via Dng wrote: > 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.
But it won't achieve compatibility with his heirs' computer systems. -- hendrik > > -- > Joel Roth > _______________________________________________ > Dng mailing list > [email protected] > https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list [email protected] https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
