[Linux] USB drive as backup

[Bill Tabor]

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You created a file in your current directory called file.tar with the 
contents of everything that was on your
usb drive. 

The command stream you wanted was

cd /home
tar cvf  /mnt/usbdrive/file.tar .

Here is a routine that creates a tar file for all directories under home

#!/bin/sh
#
# clean out previous backup
cd /mnt/usbdrive
rm -f *
# goto home
cd /home
LIST="`ls`"
for I in $LIST
do
 echo "/home/$I"
 cd /home/$I
 tar czf /mnt/usbdrive/$I.tar.gz .
done

Bill

Unique Wholesale wrote:
> I tried using tar to back my /home directories from a 80 gig drive to the
> usb 320gig drive. tar aborted after about 19 gig, giving error that drive
> was full. I checked, and only showed a portion occupied. Now, using df on
> the harddrive, the /dev/mapping shows full. However, using other checks,
> kfilemanager or might be kdiskmanager, the hard drive is on about 40 %
> used.
> I used tar cvf file.tar /mnt/usbdrive. This does not preserve the
> directories under /home. Is there a way to make tar create the
> sub-directories?
>
> Also, not sure if related to above, I cannot startx to kde. Last message
> on return to prompt is error concernig the usb drive, and trying to fix
> something. I removed the usb plug, and commented out the line in the fstab
> file, and still get the error. Not at machine now, so cannot furnish exact
> error until tonight. I boot up to the login prompt, so still have access
> to command line.
>
> What I would like to do at this point is get my /home directory files to
> the usb drive and do a new install on the hard drive. If I can still mount
> the usb drive, rsync looks like it might work. Again, not sure if it will
> preserve directories, but at this point I will take just the files.
>
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