How best to make daily routine backups from netbook to 2 external HD's?

[Greg Zeng]

<quote> My experiences so far can be summarised as follows.
http://luckybackup.sourceforge.net/
I successfully managed to make a complete backup of the WHOLE home
directory to the biggest external HD: "WD Elements" , 2 Terabytes. The
strange aspect of this experience is the way in which that HD has been
formatted: NTFS. But there was not one single error report.

My question is: what best to do with the big external HD? Leaving it
as it is now while continuing to use it? Or is it better to reformat
it into EXT4 and making a new backup afterwords? <endquote>

In Australia, I do this too, but to a compressed NTFS 2tb partition,
USB2.  NTFS-compressed, is an advanced version of BTRFS, imo.  It
already has it's file checkers, unerase apps, defrag, etc.

In Win7, I then run 'Doublekiller' to remove duplicates, by filesize &
checksum recognition.  Yet to find a Linux app to do this.

Since all my data files of every op sys (Win7-64, Win-XP-32, + 4
version of Ubuntu, both pae-32 & 64 bit) are on NTFS-compressed
partitions.  Not NTFS-3G because I want both compression & encryption.

I will publish this easy partition later soon.  Perhaps Youtube.  It's
much easier to Youtube than publishing here.

On 2012-02-06, Bas Roufs <basroufs at gmail.com> wrote:
> *Dear Mark and Everybody Else*
>
>> *ark and Everybody Else*
>>
>>>
>>> As the developer of TARDIS ( :) ) I can say yes it probably is. I
>>> refrained from recommending it to you since it won't quite do what you
>>> want
>>> because it won't back up to 2 different discs - it wasn't ever intended
>>> to
>>> do that.
>>>
>> As the developer of TARDIS ( :) ) I can say yes it probably is. I
>> refrained from recommending it to you since it won't quite do what you
>> want
>> because it won't back up to 2 different discs - it wasn't ever intended to
>> do that.
>>
>
>  *This is exactly the reason I hesitate about TARDIS.
> On the other hand: backing up and syncing I do with one external HD at a
> time only anyway.
> *
>
>>
>> The basic idea of it though is probably what you need; you could use rsync
>> and a couple of bash scripts to do manual incremental backups in the style
>> of TARDIS, but without the automatic ageing. I'd be happy to advise if you
>> like.
>>
>
> *In the meantime, I have been experimenting with "L*uckyBackup" - *which
> has RSync and some other scripts under the hood. It works both graphically
> and with command line. It is in the repo as well. More info: *
>
> http://luckybackup.sourceforge.net/
>
>
> *My experiences so far can be summarised as follows.*
>
>  http://luckybackup.sourceforge.net/
>
> *I successfully managed to make a complete backup of the WHOLE home
> directory to the biggest external HD: "WD Elements" , 2 Terabytes. The
> strange aspect of this experience is the way in which that HD has been
> formatted: NTFS. But there was not one single error report. **
> *
>
> *My question is: what best to do with the big external HD? Leaving it as it
> is now while continuing to use it? Or is it better to reformat it into EXT4
> and making a new backup afterwords?*
>
>
> *With respect to the other external HD: that one is a "ADATA NH 92" of 500
> GB. Although I did format that one as FAT32, more than 800 error reports
> have been mentioned with respect to my attempt to backup my HOME directory
> there. The error reports mainly refer to the KMAIL e-mail directories in
> .kde/share. An attempt to synchronise the HOME directory at the netbook and
> the NH92 ended up in a similar result. *
>
> *On the other hand, I DID manage to successfully backup all the datafiles,
> images, etc. to the NH92. Even eg. software and iso images could be
> transferred without problems.* *The problem is limited to the e-mail
> directory .kde/share.
> *
>
>
> *My question is: do I need to reformat the NH92? if I need EXT4 for the
> backup, is it possible to leave 50 or 100 GB as FAT32 by means of
> partitioning?
> *
>
>
> *Thanks for your replies. Respectfully yours,*
>
> *Bas Roufs.
> *
>
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>>
>> Nice to see someone recommending it though :)
>>
>> Mark
>>
>>
>> Respectfully yours,
>> Bas.
>>
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