Later, rsync figures out what needs to be transferred and the process goes much faster. Sudo rsync -azvv /media/FC32282f3227ECF8/ /media/'My Passport'/WindowsPartitionĮach of the last two commands may take quite a while when first performed and every byte has to be transferred. Sudo rsync -azvv /home/ /media/'My Passport'/LinuxPartition I immediately saw that the external drive was called “My Passport” while the Windows partition was called FC32282f3227ECF8. So I opened a Linux Terminal, and did: cd /media The first job was to find out what Linux calls the Windows partition and what it calls the external USB hard disk. My system has the complication that it has dual boot and a Windows partition. You should read before going further here. It is well explained in Ubuntu Community Documentation, which you can see by clicking here. The answer – or at least one of a number of answers – is _ rsync _. I set out to find out what Linux had to offer. Linux can do anything better than Windows, The only question was to find appropriate, reliable, free software to manage the backups.Īnything Windows can do Linux can do better, So I would not have to reformat the disk, as do the poor Mac users.

I plugged it into my computer running Ubuntu Linux and immediately saw that Linux could read and write the disk.

Not aware of that problem – it is not mentioned on the box – I bought a WD “My Passport” external hard disk. It only mentions that there may exist “generic” drivers. Western Digital’s documentation is very explicit that it, Western Digital, knows nothing about Linux.

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