On Fri, 2023-07-07 at 19:11 -0600, home user wrote: > To do a back-up of a directory tree, I > 1. insert a USB-3.0 stick into a USB-3 port; this launches the "Files" GUI. > 2. launch another "Files" GUI for my home directory. > 3. drag the icon for the directory tree that I want to back up from the home directory "Files" GUI to the USB-3.0 stick "Files" GUI. > I do not know what the system does "under the hood" to do the copy. If you're going to do backups with such a simple technique, you really want your USB stick to use the same filesystem as your original files were stored on. If it's (sufficiently) different, you lose permissions and SELinux contexts, and won't be able to copy very large files over. By sufficiently different, I mean things like to trying to copy an EXT3 file system's files over to one of the FAT formats that USB drives usually come preformatted as. But for something that's almost the same, like copying an EXT2 filesystem's contents over to a drive using EXT3, or various other common current Linux filesystems, you're probably going to be fine. -- uname -rsvp Linux 3.10.0-1160.92.1.el7.x86_64 #1 SMP Tue Jun 20 11:48:01 UTC 2023 x86_64 Boilerplate: All unexpected mail to my mailbox is automatically deleted. I will only get to see the messages that are posted to the mailing list. _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Do not reply to spam, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue
