▲ 91 ▼ Partitioning Your Linux Drives: Does It Provide Any Benefits? (odysee.com) submitted 2 years ago by prl@lemmy.world to c/linux@lemmy.ml 57 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[–] avidamoeba@lemmy.ca 4 points 2 years ago* (2 children) What's the benefit of dd-ing a home partition over rsync-a-ing a home directory's contents? permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] utopiah@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 years ago Well it'd result in a single file which if you have to copy on a microSD or USD stick might be easier. To also counter my own argument the result of dd can be mounted thus getting a rather useful directory quickly But anyway my point was rather the opposite, that indeed in most cases rsync, rdiff-backup, even scp (whatever one is most familiar with) to a local NAS, remote server, etc is usually better, at least more understandable for somebody who isn't used to the process. permalink fedilink source parent [–] smileyhead@discuss.tchncs.de 1 point 2 years ago You cannot forget some rsync flag and lose part of metadata about files. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] utopiah@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 years ago Well it'd result in a single file which if you have to copy on a microSD or USD stick might be easier. To also counter my own argument the result of dd can be mounted thus getting a rather useful directory quickly But anyway my point was rather the opposite, that indeed in most cases rsync, rdiff-backup, even scp (whatever one is most familiar with) to a local NAS, remote server, etc is usually better, at least more understandable for somebody who isn't used to the process. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] smileyhead@discuss.tchncs.de 1 point 2 years ago You cannot forget some rsync flag and lose part of metadata about files. permalink fedilink source parent