The disk used on my laptop is approximately 40GB. I want to back it up
to a usb 1TB drive, formatted as FAT32 (which also contains films as they're too big for my laptop's disk). As I understand it, the max
file size on a FAT32 device is 4GB. I don't see any option in gzip to split large resultant gzip
files. The best option seems to me to be to use Partimage, which allows
resultant split files. <br><br>So my thoughts are:<br>to backup the laptop disk partition (only one partition n the disk) to the usb drive monthly, using th split files option,<br>to backup the /home directory to the usb drive monthly and occasional incremental using Simple Backup,<br>
possibly to separate the /home directory into a separate partition.<br><br>Is the above the best way to go?<br><br clear="all">Regards,<br>John<br>07894 211434<br><br>
<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">2009/5/5 Ciarán Mooney <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:general.mooney@googlemail.com">general.mooney@googlemail.com</a>></span><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Hi,<br>
<br>
I've set up Simple Backup on my PC at home. It does work very well.<br>
You can see how many backups have been done by going to the restore<br>
app in the system menu. It will give you a dropdown menu of available<br>
backups.<br>
<div class="im"><br>
>> I know it depends on th amount<br>
>> of data, but we are talking about 4.5G of data, photos, videos etc<br>
<br>
</div>Yes. Depending on how you set it up. If you did incremental backups<br>
then it will only copy and backup the changes since the last full<br>
backup. I think I have mine set to do a full backup every month, and<br>
incremental ones each day. This means once a month it takes a while<br>
(hour or two) to backup the entire hard drive, then each other day<br>
maybe 10-20mins.<br>
<br>
Hope that helps.<br>
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Ciarán<br>
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