Neil Bothwick <neil@(protected):

> On Wed, 7 May 2008 09:57:02 +0200, Dirk Heinrichs wrote:
>
>> > rsync is good, but has its own disadvantages, notably the lack of
>> > compression and the reliance on the destination filesystem to preserve
>> > permissions.
>>
>> Can you elaborate more on the latter, please? What exactly is rsync
>> relying on and which fs wouldn't meet the requirements.
>
> FAT on an external drive,

Why not put ext* or reiserfs or whatever on such a drive?

> or some of the online backup systems.

That's really a problem, yes. But I was talking about backup-to-disk.
While it might be, that you can mount some of the online backup systems
as a fs, it mustn't be so.

Michael

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