From: nospam@needed.invalid   
      
   On 9/8/2022 5:39 PM, wAYNE wrote:   
   > I have one external USB hard drive I use as a backup of an internal hard   
   drive in the PC.  Although I have occasionally used Clonezilla to simply back   
   up the files to the external HD, I thought it might go much quicker if I   
   simply dragged and dropped    
   from the PC drive to the external drive, but this isn't going as expected.   
   >   
   > What I've been trying to do is to simply select all folders on the internal   
   drive and then copy and paste them onto the external hd. Because there are   
   already folders present on the external hd from a prior back up, when I am   
   presented with the pop up    
   asking if I want to merge the files with the existing, I simply select no,   
   apply to all files and skip.  However, much to my surprise, some or all of   
   the new files aren't being saved to the external drive.   
   >   
   > Correcting this would be welcome and thanks in advance.   
   >   
      
   cd Downloads   
      
   tar cvf /path/out/friday.tar aspen birch cedar  # Put three folders in a   
   custom "tape archive"   
                                                    # Preserves date, owner, perms   
      
   cd /home/wayne   
      
   tar cvf /path/out/friday-downloads.tar Downloads  # much easier to type, if   
   stuff is in a "tree"   
                                                      # Also easier to manage at   
   Extraction time too.   
                                                      # If everything you want is   
   in a single folder,   
                                                      # the archive might be a   
   bit more complete.   
      
   c for Create   
   v is verbose (Progress...)   
   f for filename-of-output   
      
   It's bad manners, to toss a hundred loose files into a tar command,   
   then give it to someone. As when they Extract, the crap sprays all   
   over the place. It's kinda like a game of "52 pickup" if you do that.   
   Making a good tar, everything should be in a single folder so only   
   one "splot" appears in the destination during Extraction. That makes   
   it easier for a recipient to unpack and handle. While some recipients   
   use Archive Manager to unpack, others will use command line, and then   
   the etiquette matters.   
      
   Can be opened in Archive Manager. That's one of the points of this process.   
      
   The single output file can be compressed later if you wish.   
   It's better to make the tar first, verify in the verbose output   
   that everything went well, then compress it.   
      
   Does not save space, so 20GB of files is a 20GB tarfile.   
   There is a slight overhead, proportional to number of files.   
      
   And it's called a tape archive, because these used to be   
   sent to a real tape drive.   
      
       Paul   
      
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