how do i backup all my data and restore?

[Rodolfo J. Paiz]

At 09:52 1/12/2004, you wrote:
>I use "cp -a" [...] doesn't offer any assurance that the files
>were copied correctly.  If there are disk errors (bad sectors, etc) it
>is possible to end up with corrupted files.  I've had this happen about
>10 times in the past 5 years.  It was always caused by bad disks or poor
>connections.  I always try to verify the copy before I destroy the
>original.  That may be difficult in your case.

So instead, use "rsync -av" or even check out the checksumming options for 
rsync. Very powerful, good mojo.


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