On Monday, September 22, 2014 10:41:37 PM Ed Greshko wrote: > Does anyone actually just copy files from their system to a backup drive? > > Maybe it is because I started using systems when disk storage was more > expensive. But I've always either used tar or cpio compressed > backups. This way, no matter where the info is stored or moved around > things like selinux contexts and extended attributes will be retained. I don't have an elaborate backup system. I just up grsync to do 1:1 copy of the data. The answer is yes. -- Regards, Sudhir Khanger, www.sudhirkhanger.com, www.github.com/donniezazen. -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org