I suppose you want to use NTFS for backup in order to at the same time produce
MSWin compatible files. If not, just reformat your USB into EXT3 or 4. (and my
further comments are superfluos)
Do you need to use NTFS for the external drive? I suggest you try again using
a Linux format such as ext3 and see if you have more success.
My impression is that a high proportion of problems with rdiff-backup relate
to backups to NTFS volumes (backup *from* NTFS generally works fine).
BTW, I see open source utility Ext2Read http://sourceforge.net/projects/ext2read/
allows a Windows machine to read and copy from Ext2/3/4 (including using LVM2)
filesystems.
Since the backups are being made in Linux I will consider using Ext2
or FAT32 as destiny, but sharing files with Windows is an important
issue.
Since there seems to be less experience using rdiff-backup on MSWin and since
FAT32 is a less complex and hopefully more secure filesystem than NTFS for
Linux use I chose to backup to a FAT32 disk in order to simultaneously get
MSWin-compatible files.
I do employ some precautions regarding file naming and some special care at
rdiff-backup use. I have earlier posted questions touching these problems that
may be similar to yours (on FAT32, though) but may be avoided, so far, by
using
rdiff-backup --no-hard-links \
--override-chars-to-quote '"*/:<>?\\|;' \
$source $fat32usb
Thank you for your feedback.
Best regards,
Bruno Basilio
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