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

[Terry Henderson]

On 9/14/06, Eric Waguespack <ewaguespack at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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

How about:
tar czf /media/usbthumbdrive/dir.tar.gz /home/me/dir