[NTLUG:Discuss] backing up in linux....

[Eric Waguespack]

I would like to backup a harddrive containing lets say 1.5GB of data,
and I would like to copy (backup) this data to usb thumbdrives.

My question is how... since the only "archive" bit I am aware of in
linux is only significant with the dump command.


basically I need to be able to do the following:

cp -r /home/me/dir /media/usbthumbdrive
...
...
...
<disk full, replace and press a key to continue>
etc...

the preferred solution would be a command line one, but anything is welcome.