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@xxxxxxxxx> 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 > -- ======================================================================= panic: kernel segmentation violation. core dumped (only kidding) ======================================================================= Aaron Konstam telephone: (210) 656-0355 e-mail: akonstam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
