Good backup hard drive

[Karl Larsen]

                 How to use the HP SimpleSave on Linux

         I have the hard drive (which is small and made with the new 
non-rotating memory) to work on Linux all versions. The NTSF file system 
is known to Linux so it is not a problem.

         The many files on the hard drive put there to boot the hard 
drive when the USB plug is placed into a Windows computer. This action 
will interfere with using rsync on Linux. So here is what I did to allow 
this hard drive to work on Linux:

         1. Plug the device into a USB port on your Linux computer. On 
the computer using modern Ubuntu Linux the hard drive will appear on the 
/media/ directory as /media/HP SimpleSave/. With a terminal, cd to the 
hard drive.

         2. Use ls -al to display all the files on the hard drive. Use:

         $ mkdir stuff

         3. Now put all these files in the directory /stuff/:

         $ mv * stuff  You will get an error saying it did not put 
/stuff into /stuff.

         $ ls -al will show that the only thing on the hard drive is now 
a directory /stuff.

         3. Now try to do a backup and it will work in a normal fashion. 
I use this:

         $ rsync -avz / --exclude-from=/home/karl/bin/exclude-list 
/media/'HP SimpleSave'/bkup-1/

         4. I have a backup of my whole computer on the little hard 
drive right now. I can do a partial backup of new things as desired.

  73 Karl

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