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Subject: [Discuss] On-site backups revisited - rsnapshot vs. CrashPlan
From: richard.pieri at gmail.com (Rich Pieri)
Date: Thu, 21 Feb 2013 10:52:07 -0500
In-reply-to: <sjmwqu190r1.fsf@mocana.ihtfp.org>
References: <99fba8fb525831c5781b02192f53e077.squirrel@webmail.ci.net> <51254B1D.4050503@blu.org> <sjmwqu190r1.fsf@mocana.ihtfp.org>

On Thu, 21 Feb 2013 09:53:38 -0500
Derek Atkins <warlord at MIT.EDU> wrote:

> I don't understand this last statement.  While I understand that you
> couldn't backup *to* a windows file system, I don't understand why you
> cannot backup a windows file system?

Jerry is simply mistaken. rsync, thus rsnapshot, works just fine with
NTFS source, target, or both modulo NTFS security which rsync does not
know about.

-- 
Rich P.

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