[ubuntu-uk] backup home folder

[Neil Greenwood]

On 17 September 2010 01:27, David D Lowe <daviddlowe.flimm at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 16/09/10 22:02, Tommy Pyatt wrote:
>> You may be able to compress it first into a .tar.gz or other compressed
>> archive of some sort, then you could store it anywhere. I think I've
>> done that before, but i'm not certain.
>>
>>
> Last time I tried that, it took half an hour before spitting out an
> error message.
>
> David D Lowe
>

You need to make sure there's enough space to store the archive, but
that's the best way to make sure that permissions are maintained.

NTFS isn't good enough, in my experience. As a minimum, it makes every
file executable. I can't remember what happens about user names, but I
don't think it works. Ext2/3/4 or another Linux filesystem works OK.

I normally do as Tommy suggested and use an archive though.


Cofion/Regards,
Neil.