Frank Cox wrote:
On Thu, 29 Nov 2007 01:50:15 +0000
Paul Smith <phhs80@xxxxxxxxx> 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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