copying a home directory onto a removable drive and back

[Karl Larsen]

On 08/18/2010 07:22 AM, khush ........ wrote:
> May be u can try cp -r ..
>
> Cheers
>
> Khush
>
> On Wed, Aug 18, 2010 at 2:51 PM, Hakan Koseoglu <hakan at koseoglu.org 
> <mailto:hakan at koseoglu.org>> wrote:
>
>     On 18 August 2010 13:36, user1 <bqz69 at telia.com
>     <mailto:bqz69 at telia.com>> wrote:
>     > I just tried to compress a directory into a tar.gz file and that
>     worked
>     > with the dd command.
>     I have to ask, if you already have a tar file, what's the point of
>     using dd?
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         I use cp -a which also brings along sim links and such stuff.

73 Karl


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