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

  • Subject: Re: [OCLUG-Tech] fastest way to do full home dir backup to fresh HD?
  • From: Richard Guy Briggs <rgb [ at ] tricolour [ dot ] ca>
  • Date: Wed, 27 Dec 2017 21:07:27 -0500
On 2017-12-27 14:53, Alex Pilon wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 27, 2017 at 08:19:04AM -0500, Richard Guy Briggs wrote:
> > I'd be using rsync -vaP so that subsequent updates are faster, but tar zcvf
> 
> Also add -H, -A, and -X. These aren't just edge cases!

Sure...  but my home directory hasn't ever had any of these, so it wasn't an
issue.  I have used -x though...

> > might be faster due to compression...
> 
> How would compression help when it's on the same host? You can't
> decompress after the bus. Do you mean to store the data compressed?

Yeah, stored compressed...

> Sounds more like you just want to use CPIO's passthrough mode. No need
> to serialize and deserialize data.

	slainte mhath, RGB

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