Optimal file system type and mount options for an rsnapshot dedicated drive
- by Nimmy Lebby
We have an external USB 2 drive that we are using as a backup drive for our configuration. We use rsnapshot for the backups. It uses a few standard commands for managing snapshots:
rm -rf: deletes expired snapshots
mv: moves older snapshots down a slot
cp -al: duplicates last snapshot to new slot
rsync -a --delete --numeric-ids --relative:…