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Hello all,


After suffering a bit too much with our current rsnapshot installation
(*sigh* cygwin) I've decided to move everything to our mac mini. This
should make everything a lot easier -including waking it up
autumatically at night-, I don't know why I hadn't thought about this
before

That said: what filesystem should I use on my external USB HD? I
suppose Mac HFS as FAT doesn't support hard links, but maybe you guys
have a different opinion?

As before, it's about 400GB of data which rarely changes on 2
different 2TB USB HDs which I swap once a month.


grts,


- bram

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On Fri, Apr 20, 2012 at 12:51 AM, Bram de Jong
<bram.dejong < at > samplesumo.com> wrote:
That said: what filesystem should I use on my external USB HD? I
suppose Mac HFS as FAT doesn't support hard links, but maybe you guys
have a different opinion?

Note that HFS+ is case-preserving but not case-sensitive:

mkdir testdir && cd testdir
testdir> touch ThisIsATest
testdir> echo hello >ThisIsATest
testdir> echo there >thisisatest
testdir> ls -l
total 8
-rw-r--r-- 1 shess wheel 6 Apr 20 13:31 ThisIsATest
testdir> cat ThisIsATest
there

I believe that you can format a drive to be case-sensitive, but some
apps will break. I'm guessing rsnapshot isn't among them, and if
you're running apps against your backup volume (or even on your backup
server), you're living more dangerously than I am willing to.

-scott

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On Fri, Apr 20, 2012 at 09:51:42AM +0200, Bram de Jong wrote:

That said: what filesystem should I use on my external USB HD? I
suppose Mac HFS as FAT doesn't support hard links, but maybe you guys
have a different opinion?

I use HFS+. Make sure you turn on case-sensitivity and journalling.

(but don't use case-sensitivity on your boot device or the filesystem
that /Applications lives on, as some GUI software doesn't like it for
reasons of programmer stupidity).

UFS is also an option, but only if your filesystems are less than 2TB,
as Apple can't be bothered with applying a patch for UFS to enable this
that has existed for years.

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