copying a home directory onto a removable drive and back

[Adam Funk]

On 2010-07-28, James Hogarth wrote:

> If you have an ext format USB key you can rsync to it fine (check for
> the appropriate flags) and back again.... or tar is another good
> option.
>
> Worst case scenario if ownership goes weird do a chown -R after you
> have it back in place....
>
> I assume you are intending to do this from a live cd or live usb session?

Is that necessary?  I was planning to do it either from a virtual
console or screen over ssh, so that very few of my processes are
running.