Copying one's home directory to an external hard disk

[Aaron Konstam]

On Thu, 2007-11-29 at 13:01 -0700, Robin Laing wrote:
> 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.
Those must have been really big files. For a file of a few gigs (4 I
think) it took 20 minutes.
> 
> With the cost of drives today, I would just use cp -a.  I have not used 
> rsync so I cannot comment on that.
> 
> 
> -- 
> Robin Laing
> 
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