Backup Strategy Not Working

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On Sun, 2 Aug 2015 00:21:07 +0200, Johnny Rosenberg wrote:
>2015-07-31 20:37 GMT+02:00 Graham Watkins:
>> tar -cvpzf /media/graham/Expansion\ Drive/graham.tar.gz /home/graham
>> --exclude "/home/graham/VirtualBox VMs"
>
>Just curious: Why do you compress and why not just copying everything
>to a folder? Nothing to uncompress and should be faster too. Most
>files are already compressed anyway, so there isn't much space to gain
>in many cases either.

Actually he backups /home/graham. What makes you think that most files
in home are already compressed? We don't know what kind of data he
stores in his user's home. Around 40 GiB compressed easily could shrink
to an around 20 GiB gz archive. Sure, it might take 2 hours.