Crashplan seems to have its own scrubbing methodology, which is nice, but the NTFS support is a concern.Īny suggestions? I assume rotating external USB drives in the way I have described is a fairly typical backup strategy for home NAS use cases, so I am keen to understand how others do it. The other option is to use Crashplan / rsync to an NTFS formatted drive, but I don't think NTFS support in FreeNAS is present and / or encouraged. To mount the newly created partition you will have to first create a directory to be a. To create a new XFS file system you will first need a partition to format.
#Mount xfs windows how to
VirtualBox allows 64 bit guests on 32 bit hosts with adequate CPU support (which I have). How to Create, Mount and Extend xfs Filesystem Creating a new XFS partition.
#Mount xfs windows windows
My Windows machine is 32 bit Win 7 on Ivy Bridge (i5) machine with 4 GB physical RAM.
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Differences between Linux and Windows Differences between Unix and Linux. My basic plan is to backup to a pair of external backup drives (USB): one will be connected to my FreeNAS and the other will be stored at an offsite location, rotating every fortnight / month. Ok just get gparted, from the live cd, to shrink your data partition by 1 to 2 gig, whatever a vm needs and expand your windows partition by the same amount. xfsinfo requires that the file system is mounted. Still progressing through my new FreeNAS build, and trying to finalise my backup strategy.