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

[Richard E Miles]

On Sat, 4 Nov 2006 14:09:40 +0100
"Cyril Gouget" <cyril.gouget at gmail.com> wrote:

> 2006/11/4, Duncan Hill <digikam at nacnud.force9.co.uk>:
> >
> > 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?
> 
> 
> Yes, It can
> 
> 
> 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.
> 
> 
> Exactly. I do it with
> 
> rsync --progress --recursive --links --perms --times --devices --delete
> --timeout=300 <source_path> <Backup_path>
> 
Thanks for the reply and example. 


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Richard Miles
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