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Using a USB external hard disk for backups with Linux

In this article, the writer show how to set up a recently purchased USB external hard disk drive as a backup drive for a Linux desktop PC.delete the default FAT32 partition, create a new partition, make a reiserfs filesystem, and show how to use rsync to backup your important data.

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