Re: Writing to 2 TB USB hard drive fails

[Rich Hare]

Rich Hare wrote: Petter Adsen wrote: On Wed, 11 Feb 2015 10:28:21 -0500 Rich Hare <freepr...@gmail.com> wrote: I am new to Debian, but learning. My issue involves 2 TB USB hard drives. I have been using Debian via the Knoppix bootable CD to back up a couple of Win XP computers. Has been working wonderfully with a 500 GB drive I've used and also a 1 TB drive. How do you back up? What software? Is there a verbose/debug/logging option? Petter Petter, After booting into Debian, Knoppix allows me to see each drive.  I do a simple "copy" and "paste" to copy the files from the Windows machine to the backup drive.  Using Debian, I avoid several Windows issues like a long-filename limitation and Windows' reluctance to copy "sacred" Windows system files. Once copied, I can re-copy the files in a Windows environment, again using copy-and-paste.  At this very minute I am using Windows to copy several backups to the 2 TB drives. I don't like conventional backup software which likes to compress files and make image copies.  I want to be able to go into a backup and select (perhaps) only one particular file to restore. Thank you for your interest in my problem! Rich (Petter, you have received this previously, when I responded directly to you and failed to include the list) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/54db86ff.5050...@gmail.com