Re: Segate FreeAgent USB drive

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on Monday Sep 06 2010 Chris wrote:
> On Fri, 2010-09-03 at 18:33 -0400, ed wrote:
> > On 09/03/2010 06:28 PM, Chris wrote:=20
> > > On Fri, 2010-09-03 at 18:13 -0400, ed wrote:
[...]

> > dd works for me, if you want to copy the whole drive. of course you
> > could just add a drive to the box if all you are wanting is cheap
> > drive space.=20
>=20
> Ed, I've got dd running now backing up my /home, however since dd backs
> up not only the used space but empty space as well is there another app
> that I can use that will only backup used space as well as include
> symlinks? Or is that asking too much? I've looked as apps like Bacula
> but those all provide network backups and I'm not sure they'd work just
> going over to a usb drive.
>=20
> Chris
I would think rsync is exactly what you want and copy symlinks. The
-a option will cover that nicely but man rsync for more info.

HTH
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