[clug] Linux compatible backup drives
Chris Smart
clug at csmart.io
Sat Aug 4 07:19:52 UTC 2018
On Sat, 4 Aug 2018, at 14:11, jhock--- via linux wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I once bought a Western Distributor cloud hard drive but it was
> terrible. It couldn't be encrypted so I took it back.
>
> I've seen Seagate 2 terabyte expansion or backup hard drives but they
> only mention compatibility with Micro$oft or Mac. Has anyone
> successfully used either of these to make incremental backups of their
> Ubuntu computer? Is one better than the other or does Linux just treat
> the disk as a /media/ and one can backup to that?
>
> Thanks in advance for any information that you can provide.
>
I just use a regular USB hard drive, encrypt it with LUKS[1] then create a partition and file system on top. The encrypted partition then mounts as a regular file system which I use for backups (e.g. /run/media/$user/$drive).
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux_Unified_Key_Setup
-c
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