22 Aug
2006
22 Aug
'06
12:25
On Tue, 2006-08-22 at 00:28 -0800, John Andersen wrote:
On Tuesday 22 August 2006 00:32, Henk Roos wrote:
Thanks John
can I use tar to backup to a memory stick as well. Maybe I must rather use a memory stick, what do you think?
Tar does not care what the target media is, so either should work. I have a disk in an external case which has both USB and Firewire interfaces. I use it for backup all the time. I can stack 3 or 4 full system backups on a 40 gig disk using Bru (which is specifically designed for backup).
There are also some Graphical programs (kdar) if you want, but you said command line. kdar will output a shell script that you can setup as a cron job and does full, or incremental backups.
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