how to backup

[David Fletcher]

On Tue, 2014-08-12 at 22:23 -0400, Robert Heller wrote:
> You can install tar and create tar files on the fat32 file systems:
> 
> tar cpzvf /media/usbstick/home.tgz -C /home .
> 
> The tar file will retain the original file permissions.

That's exactly the kind of thing that I do too, except I create the tar
file on the local hard drive, use gpg to encrypt it for security, then
copy it to the USB stick. I then copy from that stick to another, then
from the second stick to a different computer, and extract, to verify
that the file is a good backup. I long since learned not to blindly
trust backups.

One problem I seem to recall encountering - isn't there a file size
limit for fat32? 4GB? That's why I reformat my sticks to ext3.

Dave