Thanks John - I haven't used XFS.
This issue arose on ext3 I think some years ago on a rather elderly system. If XFS avoids this that's great but if someone is still using legacy systems, they need to be warned!
On 11/10/2015 12:18 AM, John Logsdon wrote:
I have been using rsnapshot for years now. The only problem I've found is that it is possible to run out of inodes. So my heads-up is that when you create the file system, ensure you have more than the default inodes - I usually multiply the default by 10. Otherwise you can find your 1Tb USB drive failing after 259Mb and you can't then recover the files. Rather embarrassing.
or use a file system, like xfs, that has no static allocations.
Best wishes
John
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