Frank Cox wrote:
On Thu, 29 Nov 2007 01:50:15 +0000 Paul Smith <phhs80@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:What is the best way of copying *entirely* one's home directory to anexternal 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.
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
