As I wrote before, my two backup drives had xfs installed, but they started throwing errors that needed to be repaired. Not having errors on ext4 partitions I've been trying to convert /media/bkup1 and /media/bkup2 from xfs to ext4. I'm part way there and have a question about completing the process. (BTW, I used cfdisk on the 1T SSD flash drive to delete the partition, created a new Type 7 partition, and installed vfat on it. That directory with a file having an unpritable file is now gone.)
Today I tried to tar all of /media/bkup1, the main backup directory, but it segfaulted after several hours and 523G transfered from the original 474G. I've no idea why. Anyway, I then ran mkfs.ext4 on /media/bkup2 and changed the fs. After the dirvish backup runs tonight at 00:30, copy-backup.sh runs: #!/usr/bin/bash rsync -aH /media/bkup1/ /media/bkup2 --log-file=/home/rshepard/bkup2.log I've learned that rsync copies more than does cp so while /media/bkup1 holds 474G /media/bkup2 held 600G. What I plan to do to tomorrow is to change /media/bkup1 from xfs to ext4, then run the copy-backup.sh script to copy from /bkup2 back to /bkup1 so they're both in sync. Are there errors in my thinking? TIA, Rich
