Robin Laing wrote: > > 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. > For copying things like your home directory to another drive, tar works fairly well - you do not save it to a file. Instead you pipe the output of one tar command to a second one. tar cvf - --directory=<source> . | tar xvf - --directory=<destination> But other methods also work. I like using rsync myself. Mikkel -- Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, for thou art crunchy and taste good with Ketchup!
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