[plug] formatting new external usb hardrive

[William Kenworthy]

On Wed, 2005-01-19 at 19:18 +0800, Sol wrote:

Personnel comment - avoid ext3 if theres any chance of a premature
powerdown/unplug: I changed back to reiserfs, and after a couple of
crashes/resets theres still no errors, unlike what has happened with
ext3.  ext3 has a data=journelled option which may help in some cases.

I found rsync did not work well in the context of full system backups.
It ran out of memory very quickly with many thousands of files and also
took a long time.  Use "unison" which uses the rsync protocol, but makes
better use of it for this purpose.  

BillK


> In part of this article it asks me to mkfs.ext3 /dev/sda1. I'm doing
> this now but I'm wondering if this is the way to go because both the
> server and laptop I want to back up use reiserfs? I was going to tar
> everything under / for the initial backup and then us rsync from there
> onwards to keep things up to date. Will this work? Or are there some
> horrible nasties lying in wait for me when I actually need to recover
> from backup?
>