Do you have things on the external that precludes you formatting it? You aren’t doing it too often, so a tarball might work, but you’ll be wasting a lot of time doing it that way. Then again, if it’s once a month, that doesn’t seem like a huge deal. I just use rsync now and then for my external backup and it doesn’t take long at all.
Yeah, but since my external drive is formatted in exFAT, I can’t simply rsync to it. I gotta either partition it, or create a mountable ext4 filesystem image on which I can.
Do you have things on the external that precludes you formatting it? You aren’t doing it too often, so a tarball might work, but you’ll be wasting a lot of time doing it that way. Then again, if it’s once a month, that doesn’t seem like a huge deal. I just use
rsyncnow and then for my external backup and it doesn’t take long at all.Yeah, but since my external drive is formatted in exFAT, I can’t simply rsync to it. I gotta either partition it, or create a mountable ext4 filesystem image on which I can.