Re: [Discuss] Recovering a corrupted usb hard drive with XFS

2024-05-16 Thread Kent Borg
On 5/16/24 11:15, Steve Litt wrote: The first time, yes. After that, using rsync for the backups takes only a few minutes, depending on how many files have changed since the last rsync. I am a big fan of rsync. I particularly like the "--link-dest" feature: files in the source that are unchang

Re: [Discuss] Recovering a corrupted usb hard drive with XFS

2024-05-16 Thread Jerry Feldman
For backups, I prefer snapshot backups such as rsnapshot or Back in time, both use rsync underneath so duplicates are simply hard links -- Jerry Feldman Boston Linux and Unix http://www.blu.org On Thu, May 16, 2024, 2:17 PM Steve Litt wrote: > Kent Borg said on Wed, 15 May 2024 16:21:24 -0700