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.
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Robin Laing
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