max.spicer wrote: > Robin Bowes Wrote: >> max.spicer wrote: >>> This is off-topic for SlimServer. My apologies! >>> >>> I'm trying to sort out a backup solution at the moment and have >> settled >>> on rsyncing to a large USB disk. I'd really like the USB disk to be >>> attachable to a Linux (Debian) box, but would also like to put a >>> compressed filesystem on it. The problem is that I haven't been >> able >>> to find a compressed filesystem for Linux! Can anyone suggest >> anything >>> suitable? >> This may be relevant: >> >> http://rsnapshot.org/ >> >> It doesn't compress, but saves space using hard-links. >> > > I don't think rsnapshot would help in this case. As I just need a > single, complete and up to date copy of my data on the external disk, > hard links would not help me save any space. Keeping snapshots on the > disk is an interesting idea, however, but I'm not sure I need them. > > Cheers for the link,
Ok, how about: tar jcpf /path/to/external/disk/backup.tar.bz2 "list of files" R. PS. I fixed your top-posting. :) _______________________________________________ unix mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/unix
