copying a home directory onto a removable drive and back

[Adam Funk]

On 2010-07-28, Tim Henderson wrote:

>> $ rsync -av --delete /home/username /media/usb
>
> You can use the -H flag to preserve hard links:
>
> rsync -avH --delete /home/username /media/usb/
>
> Please note the lack of '/' after the username.  It is somewhat important.

OK, I think I'll take this route.  Thanks to everyone who answered.