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[OCLUG-Tech] fastest way to do full home dir backup to fresh HD?

  • Subject: [OCLUG-Tech] fastest way to do full home dir backup to fresh HD?
  • From: "Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday [ at ] crashcourse [ dot ] ca>
  • Date: Wed, 27 Dec 2017 06:58:39 -0600 (CST)
  time to kill, so i found an unused 1TB USB hard drive in the drawer
and thought, what the heck, just do an end-of-year backup of all of
/home/rpjday on my fedora box, and since i don't care how long it
takes, i just did a basic "cp -a" to preserve owner/group/timestamps,
and it's chugging away, but i'm curious ... what would be the
*fastest* way to do that?

  should i have run it through tar with compression, or rsync with
compression, or scp, or ... you get the idea. i suspect that since i
didn't take advantage of compression, i'm currently being limited by
the throughput of the USB port and i'm currently doing it the slowest
way possible.

  thoughts?

rday

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