On Fri, Aug 07, 2020 at 03:27:43PM -1000, Joel Roth via Dng wrote:
> Haines Brown wrote:
> > Cron automatiically backs up some partitions on my HD by means of a
> > script. Not sure of the size of thse backupos, but perhaps 300 Mb.
> >
> > I have been doing the backups to an external WD USB drive, and they
> > took around 3 hours. However, I became nervous about the condition of
> > the drive which is quite old, and so bought a 2 Tb replacement. Now
> > the back up takes 10 hours.
> >
> > The only thing that I can think of that might account for its being
> > slow is that my old WD drive was formatted ext4, but I thought best to
> > leave my new drive with NTFS.
>
> You can create a large file in the drive, format it as
> ext4 and mount it. That will avoid the speed cost of NTFS.

But it won't achieve compatibility with his heirs' computer systems.

-- hendrik

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