[HLUG] SATA drive question

[Morven Lewis-Everley]

I already do exactly what you are planning, and I would recommend FAT32.

If you are using ubuntu, search the add/remove for an app called "simple
backup" (i think), which can schedual backups or perform then at the click
of a button, it also does incremental backups

Mo
On Wed, Nov 26, 2008 at 10:36 PM, dicegeorge at hotmail dot com <
dicegeorge at hotmail.com> wrote:

> i think best to have it as FAT32
> which all operating systems can read and write to...
>
> should be easy to drag folders onto it,
> and to have lots of folders,
>
> cheap and enough room to back up everything
> even the weird unix folders which you dont understand
> cos there might be a setting hidden away somewhere
> and you'll only know when youve lost it and you need it..
>
> and room for loads of photos, cds, xp stuff...
>
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> From: <grhmc at lavabit.com>
> Sent: Wednesday, November 26, 2008 5:28 PM
> To: "Herefordshire Linux Users Group." <herefordshire at mailman.lug.org.uk>
> Subject: [HLUG] SATA drive question
>
> > Taking George's advice on backing up wholesale to an external hard disk,
> > my first step has been the purchase of a disk. It's got SATA drive so I
> > need to know:
> >
> > 1 Will it be easy from linux to do a backup of my complete home file to
> > this external disk
> >
> > 2 Could I also put other files on to the disk from a completely different
> > system, eg a digital camera or an XP system.
> >
> > thanks
> >
> > Graham
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