Best backup file system?

First I would like to just say hi since I'm new here

I was just wondering what the pros and cons are of WBFS vs. FAT32 or something similar for backup use on the Wii. I backed up my Wii games on a drive with WBFS and I don't know if the drive was messed up but some games started to fail to load or would fail to load within the game itself. So I try to copy the games over to my pc, reformat the same drive with WBFS again and transfer them back to the drive.
Long story short, I just don't trust reading and writing from WBFS on Windows. Are there any disadvantages to using FAT32 to store and load my Wii games from? Can the Wii handle FAT32 well?

I'm going to get a new external HDD dedicated for Wii games and I would like to not have to worry about the file system once I start accumulating backups. I don't want to have 100 gigs of backups fail on me because of some unknown error copying files to/from this filesystem.

On a related note, what do you think of this HDD? From the reviews, it works with the Wii well. I want a HDD that is USB powered (less clutter) and small.

Thanks!

 

thanks! based on that, wbfs remains the best option for me.

is there anything i need to do to keep the wbfs partition healthy? is it safe to delete games from the partition? i read in a separate thread on gbatemp that deleting a game from a wbfs partition can break other games on the partition. this makes me feel very nervous about using wbfs again, because this adds another possible cause to the list of reasons some of my games stopped loading. i also read that games can get corrupt etc. whats the most commonly used filesystem for wii loading now?

 

hmm sounds good enough for me. usb loader gx is my favorite backup loader; would i still be able to use that with wii backup manager? is wii backup manager the program responsible for automatically splitting when transferring to the hard drive? will it automatically scrub and compress when transferring? also, isn't there a limit of 32 gb for fat32 partitions?

 

i don't mean the file size limit; i was referring to the maximum size of the partition itself. microsoft imposed a limit of 32 gb for some reason, but there are other partition utilities that will format a fat32 partition larger than 32 gb. as far as i know using ntfs isn't unstable per se, just the ripping of wii games to ntfs is. if you're only going to download your backups or rip them with your computer you should be fine. you could also partition your drive with one wbfs/fat32 partition for wii games and the other ntfs partition for your files.

 

so ntfs is stable under configurable usb loader? completely stable? let's say that i'm only using the drive for my game backups and that i'm only using configurable usb loader; what file system should i use?

 

Emulation of the wii has never really worked for me that well. I guess I haven't looked into it that much, but why bother when I have the real hardware (other than for HD)?

Basically I have a dedicated SD card for the Wii, so where the HBC and other boot files reside doesn't matter to me. It helps keep things simple for me. Thanks to Dexter for pointing out that WBFS is seen as more of a legacy FS for the Wii now. That helps with my decision. What's the point of making backups if the backups themselves are unreliable because of the file system?

I'm using one 250 GB external HDD that is dedicated solely for the Wii, so only one partition is necessary for me. Even so, I'm not really a noob and can partition my way around things

Given all the info I'm choosing FAT32 for now. @Sao Mortel, the only files that I'm going to be storing that are larger than 4 GB are dual layered Wii games. Those are few and far between, anyway. As long as the software can properly recognize and split and play the dual layered games, then I should be good to go.

 

Really? Why is that?