Copying one's home directory to an external hard disk

Robin Laing Robin.Laing at drdc-rddc.gc.ca
Thu Nov 29 20:01:36 UTC 2007


Frank Cox wrote:
> On Thu, 29 Nov 2007 01:50:15 +0000
> Paul Smith <phhs80 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> What is the best way of copying *entirely* one's home directory to an
>> external hard disk? 
> 
> tar
> 
> 

I will vote against tar.

I used it for a backup some time ago and just this past weekend, I had 
to recover 4 files.  Due to the size of the tar file, it took ages.  I 
am talking hours.

With the cost of drives today, I would just use cp -a.  I have not used 
rsync so I cannot comment on that.


-- 
Robin Laing




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