Advice on backup method

[David Fletcher]

On Sun, 2016-05-29 at 11:15 +0200, Nils Kassube wrote:
> Did you reformat the flash drive with ext2/3/4? If you didn't do that, 
> the drive is formatted with FAT32 or maybe NTFS. Both FAT32 and NTFS are 
> not compatible with Linux symlinks and therefore you would get the error 
> message above.
> 
> IMHO you have two options: Either format the flash drive with one of the 
> ext file systems - then you can use Linux symlinks. If you want to use 
> the flash drive for Windows machines also, you should rather change your 
> backup method to use tar archives - they can be stored on FAT32 / NTFS 
> file systems.

Nils,

Thanks for reminding me. I reformat my backup drives, to ext2 I think,
because I hit a file size limit with the FAT format.

Dave