On Sun, Mar 1, 2015 at 10:40 AM, etie...@magickarpet.org wrote:
Hello there,
Could anyone recommend which filesystem type to use when backing up a few
hundred GB of files from NetBSD onto a USB disk, planning to restore them
on an OpenBSD machine. I remember distantly that last time I tried
On Sun, Mar 1, 2015 at 12:06 PM, Janjaap van Velthooven janj...@stack.nl
wrote:
On Sun, Mar 01, 2015 at 04:40:25PM +, etie...@magickarpet.org wrote:
Hello there,
Could anyone recommend which filesystem type to use when backing up
a few hundred GB of files from NetBSD onto a USB disk,
On Sun, Mar 01, 2015 at 04:40:25PM +, etie...@magickarpet.org wrote:
Hello there,
Could anyone recommend which filesystem type to use when backing up
a few hundred GB of files from NetBSD onto a USB disk, planning to
restore them on an OpenBSD machine. I remember distantly that last
On 2015-03-01 17:38, Kenneth Gober wrote:
FAT (and FAT32) would probably involve less experimentation. to bypass
the
limitations of FAT, I recommend using tar(1) and split(1).
tar cfC - /filesystem-to-back-up . | split -b 2000m
that will produce a tar file split into 2GB chunks named
Hello there,
Could anyone recommend which filesystem type to use when backing up a
few hundred GB of files from NetBSD onto a USB disk, planning to restore
them on an OpenBSD machine. I remember distantly that last time I tried
with FFS, it didn't work.
Cheers,
--
Étienne
On 2015-03-01 11:40, etie...@magickarpet.org wrote:
Could anyone recommend which filesystem type to use when backing up a
few hundred GB of files from NetBSD onto a USB disk, planning to
restore them on an OpenBSD machine. I remember distantly that last
time I tried with FFS, it didn't work.
On 01.03.2015. 17:55, Josh Grosse wrote:
You might experiment with ext2fs. IIRC, FAT has two strikes against it:
owner/mode, and 4GB individual filesize limit. NTFS (built-in, or FUSE)
has its own owner/mode translation issues, such that you would liely want
to archive files as intermediate
FAT (and FAT32) would probably involve less experimentation. to bypass the
limitations of FAT, I recommend using tar(1) and split(1).
tar cfC - /filesystem-to-back-up . | split -b 2000m
that will produce a tar file split into 2GB chunks named xaa, xab, xac,
etc. to restore:
cat x?? |
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