A general rsync question

[Bogart Salzberg]

I was also wondering about rsync-ing to a USB drive. For a "snapshot"  
archive that uses hard links for unchanged files (like dirvish), is  
it necessary to format the USB drive as ext2, ext3 or some other Unix  
FS flavor? I imagine that it is. If so, will "make2fs -j /dev/<usb  
drive>" work as expected?

Thanks,

Bogart

On Nov 28, 2007, at 4:47 PM, Jim Nelson wrote:

> John Bown wrote:
>> Good afternoon everyone.  I have a PowerEdge 1600SC running SLES9  
>> SP3.
>> Do any of you know if it's possible to rsync said box directly to an
>> external USB2 hard drive?  Many thanks.
>>
>> John Bown
>>
>
> Yes.  Barring things like /proc, it'll work just fine.  The SC1600  
> does not have
> USB 2.0, though, so it'll take forever and a day...
>
> I tend to do NFS export/gigabit switch/laptop with USB 2.0 for  
> those occasions.
>
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