tl;dr, use rsync -aHAX.
On Sun, Feb 28, 2016 at 04:04:09PM -0500, Bruce wrote:
> Is a 50Gb or greater reasonable for a tar.gz backup?
Not unless you're backing up **to** a filesystem that doesn't support
all the file attributes you need (e.g., dreaded HFS+, NTFS, and FAT).
Especially not for…
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For a one-time thing, tar is simple. If you are incrementally backing up
the same general data set, rsync will save a lot of time and datathroughput.
I think about the location of data as well - if it is local the
decisions are different than data remotely located across slower and
more expens
Is a 50Gb or greater reasonable for a tar.gz backup? I've read that a tar file
can be as big a 4Tb? Just wonder at what point is it considered normal
practiced to move from tar to rsync? For instance my home directory is 62Gb
and my media directory is 819Gb.
Just wondering what other people
