From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Steven Arntson Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: backing up hard drive with emacs? Date: Wed, 14 May 2014 19:56:18 -0700 Message-ID: <87d2ffg371.fsf@stevenarntson.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1400122634 16816 80.91.229.3 (15 May 2014 02:57:14 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 15 May 2014 02:57:14 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu May 15 04:57:07 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Wklqv-0003Q9-MZ for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 15 May 2014 04:57:01 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:55371 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Wklqv-0006vi-DU for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 14 May 2014 22:57:01 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:42430) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Wklqd-0006vS-IU for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 14 May 2014 22:56:51 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WklqV-0001Bn-V7 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 14 May 2014 22:56:43 -0400 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:46127) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WklqV-0001Ba-PJ for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 14 May 2014 22:56:35 -0400 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1WklqU-00025I-K5 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 15 May 2014 04:56:34 +0200 Original-Received: from 75-165-107-191.tukw.qwest.net ([75.165.107.191]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 15 May 2014 04:56:34 +0200 Original-Received: from steven by 75-165-107-191.tukw.qwest.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 15 May 2014 04:56:34 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 21 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 75-165-107-191.tukw.qwest.net User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:vuj4BrJMghBuTEWXLWRt9X35s7w= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 80.91.229.3 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:97653 Archived-At: Sorry if this question is poorly stated... I'm a beginning emacs user who's trying to be more responsible about backing up the hard drive of my computer. A friend gave me a USB drive with the same amount of space as my laptop's hard drive, and I'd like to figure out how to back up the data. I've read some info online, and am primarily confused by it. I'd like a simple way to make a copy of my home folder on this drive. I don't need compressed archives or anything--this is just in case a boulder falls on my laptop--but it would be nice if it had the ability to see what I'd changed since last time and just recopy that, rather than doing it all from scratch. (Is it called "cloning" the drive?) Does emacs have any simple utility to do this kind of thing, or (slightly offtopic) is there a cli command that would make it happen? Lastly, should I be thinking about this whole issue differently than I am? Thank you! steven arntson