On Nov 29, 2007 9:52 PM, Aaron Konstam <akonstam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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. Thanks for all replies. Paul
