Just finished installing the beta OMV 5 from ISO on an older Dell server and gotten some shares up and working. Looks like a cool project.
I'm now trying to set up USB Backup. I understand from some of the various threads that Rsync doesn't get along well with NTFS or whatever Microsoft is calling their default filesystem these days.
If I must I can format Ext4 or something else that I know is fine for Linux, but in this household I'm the only one with significant Linux experience. My principal reason for setting up a NAS in the first place is for secure storage of family pictures and other keepsake content that would need to be accessible should something happen to me. As such a filesystem that can be readily read by Windows in addition to Linux is much preferred.
What filesystem would you recommend a 5TB external USB hard disk be formatted with in order to accomplish both being usable to OMV and be readily used by Windows should it prove necessary?
For what it's worth we are already doing Blu-ray burns for backups as well, but should a recovery from Blu-ray prove necessary that's going to be quite the ordeal as the number of backup discs grows.
Thanks,