Prior to upgrading the OS version on my Dell E5410 laptop I tried to backup everything in ~/ to a 2.7T external hard drive with 22M of data on it. After deleting cruft from ~/ du -sh told me my home directory contained 40G of data.
With /mnt/hd/caddis/ (the laptop's host name) as the pwd I entered the command: tar czvf caddis-home-2016-09-24.tgz /home/rshepard/ The system churned away for a long time (I didn't time it, but it would have been more than a coffee break in length) and finally exited with an error message about exiting after prior errors occurred. Tried this again with the same results. What might cause such a response? Rich _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
