Les -
A lot of the data needs to be moved in time to servers in other organizations (e.g. Rotary) or the data may be used as a repository for someone with just a notebook computer who would plug the HD into the computer. This is not my main data backup; I use rsync for that. http://www.toddcary.com/rotary/ is one example of data that needs to be shared.
Can rsync take ext4 data and copy it to a fat32 drive?
Todd
On 3/9/2011 3:16 PM, Les Mikesell wrote:
On 3/9/2011 4:56 PM, Todd Cary wrote:
I have some photographs on my Centos 4 server that I want to copy to a USB drive. However, I want to be able to access the files from Windows or Mac OS's. Where should I look for instructions on how to mount and format the USB drive and is FAT32 the only option?
After plugging it in, use 'dmesg' to see the device name that was just added and mount it wherever you want. Maybe you should think about switching to Centos 5 (or 6 soon...) which should automount on the desktop.
Fat32 is the only thing that will 'just work' across the different OS's and it is OK unless you are handling files>4GB. But don't you have a network for that sort of thing?