Network Accessible Hard Drive

[Little Girl]

Hey there,

Jay Ridgley wrote:

>  I am needing an network accessible or external drive to use as a 
>backup for my systems. I am considering a WD 2TB Midnight Blue.

I do the same thing, not as network-accessible drives, but as
external drives that I plug in once a week and back up to.

>I need it ONLY as a backup for my computers (3), all running Ubuntu 
>22.04. I would use it weekly and run the installed standard backup 
>software manually. Is there a problem with this approach? Is there a 
>reason not to use NTFS, all my systems ONLY have Ubuntu installed?

I use Ext4 because it's a native format. Since you're backing up only
Ubuntu files, that would be a gentle and reliable way to do it. It can
be done with NTFS, but requires a special driver that has some
limitations and, from what I was able to find out, risks some data
loss. I could be wrong about that, though. You'll want to do your own
research to determine the best format for your use-case.

-- 
Little Girl

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