Dear Christian, Thanks for your feedback. The HDD will not accept larger than 4GB (as its in FAT format). Its a new external HDD. Thinking of the best format(that would work with Mac , Win and Linux) .seems like a challenge. What's your view on NTFS? And why not exFAT?
Thanks Kevin On Saturday, August 8, 2015, Christian Kivalo <ml+dove...@valo.at> wrote: > > > Am 08. August 2015 06:56:55 MESZ, schrieb Kevin Laurie < > superinterstel...@gmail.com <javascript:;>>: > >Hello, > >Yesterday I tried to back up a 40GB maildir . > >I tried to move the maildir from home to external HDD but failed. > >Decided > >then to compress it(which took several hours). Now changing the disk > >format > >from FAT to exFAT to allow the transfer for the large compressed file. > > > >How does one back up emails on a external drive? > >Some advice would be greatly appreciated. > > i backup my maildir with rsync to my home nas. > > i assume you are using linux or similar, so when backing up to an external > hdd i'd also use rsync to copy over the maildir as is to the external hdd > but use a different filesystem n that hdd like ext4 or xfs or anything else > than fat/vfat/exfat. > > when something goes wrong you can just copy the files back. > > what was the error message you got when you tried to copy to the ext. hdd? > > regards > - c >
