On Sun, May 26, 2024 at 12:28 PM Antony Stone
<Antony.Stone@???> wrote:
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> On Sunday 26 May 2024 at 20:08:19, nisp1953 via Dng wrote:
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> > I am backing up about 34 GB of data. It's small but important.
>
> In that case I would not even consider incremental backups - I would take a
> full backup every day, and write it to a different directory (or even
> partition) on the external drive. I cannot imagine you are using disks
> smaller than 7 x 34 Gb = 238 Gbytes.
>

Antony:

I did what you suggested and bought a 2 TB USB drive. I formatted it
for Ext2 fs.It has to be readable by my OpenBSD computer also. OpenBSD
can read and write to ext2.

Thanks for the solid advice.

> Therefore a simple direct copy of the data in a normal file system which you
> can look through and copy from, using completely standard commands, would be
> my preference.