Backup to a USB memory stick: Some questions.
- From: pureheart@xxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 27 Feb 2008 18:46:13 -0800 (PST)
I've half-decided to get an 8GB USB memory stick to use as backup.
(I'm using Mandrake 10.1 Official right now.)
First of all, to TAR files to the USB stick, do I need to format it
ext2/3 or will time/date/owner/etc. info be preserved if I leave it
VFAT (or whatever the storebought formattting is.)
I had planned to just go root and TAR all of /home to the device, but
reading here I saw somewhere that it is not a good idea to tar things
as root.
True?
Should I then just su to each user in turn (3 of 'em) and tar his /
home individually to the USB stick?
I'm expecting data on the order of 3GB but expect it to grow with
time, hence getting an 8GB device. In this case, is there any speed
advantage to skipping gzip/compress etc?
Or, should I use another program entirely and skip TAR?
Pureheart
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