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Support of FAT32 ?

Asked by Gadget Boy

Hi,

I was wondering if backintime is supposed to work with FAT32 as the backup disk.
If not, it seems that, instead of creating a hard link with the unmodified files, backintime is saving then again.

Best regards

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Peter (pstevens555-gmail) said : 		#1

FAT32 doesn't support hard links so this results in full copies of files being made. You should use a drive/partition formated to ext3 or another file system that supports full compatibility. (formaitng a partition will wipe the data, please back up if you do that.)

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Peter

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