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Re: Mounting a USB device

From Charles Curley <charlescurley@charlescurley.com>
Newsgroups linux.debian.user
Subject Re: Mounting a USB device
Date 2020-11-03 18:10 +0100
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On Tue, 3 Nov 2020 16:12:27 +0000
Mick Ab <recoverymail123890@gmail.com> wrote:

> Thanks for the suggestion re rsync, but using tar has been successful
> with a NTFS drive many times.

Another possibility is to get rid of NTFS, and replace it with an
encrypted ext4 partition. Then you can use something like rsnapshot to
automate the backup process entirely. This gives you backups in depth:
several months of back versions of files, with deduplication.

Create a partition:
https://charlescurley.com/blog/posts/2019/Nov/29/encrypting-an-external-partition/

Scripts to mount and umount the partition:
https://charlescurley.com/blog/posts/2020/Jan/01/mounting-an-encrypted-external-partition/

Some more general thoughts on backups:
https://charlescurley.com/blog/posts/2019/Nov/02/backups-on-linux/

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Mounting a USB device Mick Ab <recoverymail123890@gmail.com> - 2020-10-27 17:00 +0100
  Re: Mounting a USB device David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2020-10-27 19:10 +0100
  Re: Mounting a USB device Kenneth Parker <sea7kenp@gmail.com> - 2020-10-27 19:30 +0100
    Re: Mounting a USB device <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2020-10-27 21:10 +0100
    Re: Mounting a USB device Mick Ab <recoverymail123890@gmail.com> - 2020-10-27 21:50 +0100
      Re: Mounting a USB device David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2020-10-29 18:40 +0100
        Re: Mounting a USB device Mick Ab <recoverymail123890@gmail.com> - 2020-10-29 19:30 +0100
          Re: Mounting a USB device Mick Ab <recoverymail123890@gmail.com> - 2020-10-29 19:50 +0100
            Re: Mounting a USB device David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2020-10-31 23:50 +0100
              Re: Mounting a USB device Mick Ab <recoverymail123890@gmail.com> - 2020-11-01 13:00 +0100
                Re: Mounting a USB device David <bouncingcats@gmail.com> - 2020-11-02 11:00 +0100
                Re: Mounting a USB device David <bouncingcats@gmail.com> - 2020-11-02 12:30 +0100
                Re: Mounting a USB device Mick Ab <recoverymail123890@gmail.com> - 2020-11-03 13:30 +0100
                Re: Mounting a USB device ellanios82 <ellanios82@gmail.com> - 2020-11-03 15:10 +0100
                Re: Mounting a USB device The Wanderer <wanderer@fastmail.fm> - 2020-11-03 15:20 +0100
                Re: Mounting a USB device Mick Ab <recoverymail123890@gmail.com> - 2020-11-03 17:20 +0100
                Re: Mounting a USB device Charles Curley <charlescurley@charlescurley.com> - 2020-11-03 18:10 +0100
                Re: Mounting a USB device Joe <joe@jretrading.com> - 2020-11-03 18:40 +0100
                Re: Mounting a USB device David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2020-11-03 21:50 +0100
                Re: Mounting a USB device Joe <joe@jretrading.com> - 2020-11-04 00:40 +0100
                Re: Mounting a USB device David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2020-11-04 03:00 +0100
                Local shared storage configuration Andrei POPESCU <andreimpopescu@gmail.com> - 2020-11-10 11:10 +0100
                Re: Local shared storage configuration Didar Hossain <didar@purlo.in> - 2020-11-11 06:30 +0100
                Re: Local shared storage configuration Andrei POPESCU <andreimpopescu@gmail.com> - 2020-11-11 13:40 +0100
                Re: Mounting a USB device Keith Bainbridge <ke1thozgroups@gmx.com> - 2020-11-04 02:00 +0100
  Re: Mounting a USB device Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2020-10-27 20:00 +0100
  Re: Mounting a USB device Nicolas George <george@nsup.org> - 2020-10-27 20:00 +0100
    Re: Mounting a USB device Nicolas George <george@nsup.org> - 2020-10-27 20:30 +0100
    Re: Mounting a USB device ghe2001 <ghe2001@pm.me> - 2020-10-27 20:30 +0100
      Re: Mounting a USB device Reco <recoverym4n@enotuniq.net> - 2020-10-27 20:30 +0100
  Re: Mounting a USB device ghe2001 <ghe2001@pm.me> - 2020-10-27 20:00 +0100
  Re: Mounting a USB device Cindy Sue Causey <butterflybytes@gmail.com> - 2020-10-27 20:10 +0100
  Re: Mounting a USB device Dominique Dumont <dominique.dumont@netc.fr> - 2020-10-29 16:10 +0100

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