copying a home directory onto a removable drive and back

[James Hogarth]

On 17 August 2010 14:09, Adam Funk <a24061 at ducksburg.com> wrote:
> 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.
>
>


Doing it from live CD not only means that you ensure your /home/<user>
is up to date but also means that you have the tools immediately at
hand to do your resizing of partitions without any issues of a
partition being mounted etc The live CD suggestion was more for your
partition shuffle than the backing up of data... but if that isn't
needed and you have no issues with open files in /home/<user> then no
worries ;)

James