Paul Smith wrote:
Dear All,
What is the best way of copying *entirely* one's home directory to an
external hard disk? Can one do that while logged in? Or should one use
the rescue CD?
Mount the external disk somewhere or note where it auto-mounted, cd to
the top of the directory where you want to start, then:
rsync -avH . /path/to/destinaton/directory
If you repeat this on the same drive it will know enough to only copy
the changed parts - and you may or may not want to add the --delete
option to remove files that no longer exist on the source.
--
Les Mikesell
lesmikesell@xxxxxxxxx
