On Sunday 20 January 2008 17:49, Marty wrote: > tom arnall wrote: > > besides my home directory, what else should i think about backing up? > > I would back up etc as well. > > > what would be the advantage of 'rsync'? > > It makes perfect copies of directory trees. is there a problem with 'cp -R' in this respect? (it is how i do my regular backups. not good ;o( ? )