Hello,
I want to backup to a 14TB easystore that will always be connected via USB. I have installed the USB Backup plugin and have already used it to backup ~6TB of data. However, I'm thinking that I probably should have used Rsync, instead, but would like to confirm my suspicions since I've backed up so much data already.
For one, I am not sure how to schedule USB Backup to run periodically, which makes me think that it's intended only for those who only want to initiate backups upon connecting the external storage (like a photographer, I guess). I was also surprised to see it preserved the existing exFAT filesystem on the easystore. This is annoying because I have to unplug the easystore and connect it to my Windows PC to make sure the backup is working. It's also annoying that I can't preserve permissions; though, I understand why and I suppose both of these issues are my fault for not having formatted to POSIX first.
For my use case (regularly scheduled backups to always-connected external drive), would I be better off just reformatting to POSIX, mounting the external drive, and then using Rsync? Then, I can just set-and-forget the backups and will be able to browse the files via ssh for sanity checks?
Thanks!