Il 2021-02-05 01:41 Kenneth Porter ha scritto: > I'm setting up a CentOS 7 box as a BackupPC 4 server to back up > Windows boxes on my LAN. I'm using an external 1.5 TB USB drive for > the "pool". BackupPC deduplicates by saving all files in a pool, a > directory hiearchy with each file named for the checksum of the file, > and the directories acting as a hash tree to reach each pool file. A > backup for a specific workstation is a directory tree of checksums and > metadata that point into the pool for the actual file data. > Incremental backups are reverse deltas from periodic "filled" backups > of all files. I'm using rsyncd to pull changed files from the > workstations. > > I'm deciding which filesystem to use for my external drive. I'm > thinking the main candidates are ext4 and xfs. What's the best > filesystem for this application? While being a fan of XFS, for an external drive I would use EXT4. My (anectodal) experience is that EXT3/4 is more resilient to flacky hardware/connection as the one provided my many USB adapters. Regards. -- Danti Gionatan Supporto Tecnico Assyoma S.r.l. - www.assyoma.it email: g.danti at assyoma.it - info at assyoma.it GPG public key ID: FF5F32A8