On Wed, 2009-02-18 at 10:03 +0000, Anthony Price wrote: > From the root of the LFS system > > cp -av * [target] > > Where the target is any area of storage such as another disk partition.
One qualification to that - the target has to be a filesystem that respects ownership and permissions. So copying it to a FAT-formatted USB stick will not give you a useful backup. If you do want to do that, you'll need to format the stick as ext2 or another 'native' filesystem. Simon.
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