{"id":705,"date":"2011-05-04T18:23:24","date_gmt":"2011-05-04T23:23:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/swildow.darktech.org\/wp\/?p=705"},"modified":"2011-05-04T18:23:24","modified_gmt":"2011-05-04T23:23:24","slug":"using-a-usb-external-hard-disk-for-backups-with-linux","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.wildow.com\/blog\/?p=705","title":{"rendered":"Using a USB external hard disk for backups with Linux"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.basicallytech.com\/blog\/index.php?\/archives\/73-Using-a-USB-external-hard-disk-for-backups-with-Linux.html\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.basicallytech.com\/blog\/index.php?\/archives\/73-Using-a-USB-external-hard-disk-for-backups-with-Linux.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Why backup with Linux?<\/p>\n<p>The question should really be &#8220;Why backup with Linux instead of Windows, if I have a dual boot PC?&#8221; Personally, I don&#8217;t dual boot, so for me the question never arises. However, I can think of a number of reasons why I would use Linux as my OS for running backups.<br \/>\nWindows cannot read your Linux partitions without third-party addons.<br \/>\nConversely, Linux can (natively) read your FAT32 and NTFS partitions.<br \/>\nIt is straightforward to create a backup script which mounts those partitions, backs them up, then unmounts them.<br \/>\nBacking up to Linux renders any virus-infected files inert.<br \/>\nWould you leave a Windows PC running overnight, unattended?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>http:\/\/www.basicallytech.com\/blog\/index.php?\/archives\/73-Using-a-USB-external-hard-disk-for-backups-with-Linux.html Why backup with Linux? The question should really be &#8220;Why backup with Linux instead of Windows, if I have a dual boot PC?&#8221; Personally, I don&#8217;t dual boot, so for me the question never arises. However, I can think &#8230; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.wildow.com\/blog\/?p=705\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-705","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.wildow.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/705","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.wildow.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.wildow.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.wildow.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.wildow.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=705"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.wildow.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/705\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":706,"href":"http:\/\/www.wildow.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/705\/revisions\/706"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.wildow.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=705"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.wildow.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=705"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.wildow.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=705"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}