Neil Bothwick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, 7 May 2008 09:57:02 +0200, Dirk Heinrichs wrote: > >> > rsync is good, but has its own disadvantages, notably the lack of >> > compression and the reliance on the destination filesystem to preserve >> > permissions. >> >> Can you elaborate more on the latter, please? What exactly is rsync >> relying on and which fs wouldn't meet the requirements. > > FAT on an external drive,
Why not put ext* or reiserfs or whatever on such a drive? > or some of the online backup systems. That's really a problem, yes. But I was talking about backup-to-disk. While it might be, that you can mount some of the online backup systems as a fs, it mustn't be so. Michael -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
