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For compatibility reasons, I formatted my external hard drive with NTFS. I would like to use this drive to backup my entire Linux home folder. Given all the configurations and parameters that rsync provides, which command is recommended to achieve this operation?

orschiro
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    Is your NTFS drive configured to use POSIX permissions and ownership? – muru Feb 28 '17 at 09:34
  • Very good question! How can I find it out? – orschiro Feb 28 '17 at 11:04
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    If you only want to open the backup in Linux, you also could create a big file in Linux and format that with e.g. ext4 and mount it as loop device. It also should be possible to use qemu container images. Backup up a Unix filesystem to NTFS will lead to problems sooner or later. – Thomas Feb 28 '17 at 11:19
  • I chose rsync because I want to have direct access to my files on my external drive without having to install any other tool. – orschiro Feb 28 '17 at 11:26
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    Not a good choice if you care about permissions. – Andrea Lazzarotto Feb 28 '17 at 19:27
  • See http://askubuntu.com/a/514870/158442 – muru Mar 01 '17 at 04:59

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