[Digikam-users] Best way to back up pictures to a usb 2.0 drive

[Duncan Hill]

Richard E Miles wrote:
> On Fri, 3 Nov 2006 08:01:50 +0100
> "Cyril Gouget" <cyril.gouget at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> Hello,
>>
>> In my opinion, the best way to backup anything anywhere is rsync (even on a
>> local mount)
>>
> 
> Can rsync be used to back up to a external USB 2.0 harddrive?

So long as the linux box can see the destination, rsync can probably 
talk to it.  The external drive is just another path on your file system 
when mounted, so it's a simple rsync /imagepath /usbpath and you're done.