Recovering a Crashed Fedora

[Gary Stainburn]

On Thursday 29 January 2015 06:34:06 Heinz Diehl wrote:
> On 29.01.2015, Mickey wrote:
> > But what I'm concerned about is that Root will change the owner of the
> > Tar files. after i do the new install it will have the same user on the
> > crashed drive.
>
> Never ever compress backup data which contains valuable data. One single
> bit flip will render your whole archive useless. This one does not compress
> and preserves all important attributes:
>
> rsync -avxHSAX /source/ /target
>
> Note the trailing slash at the end of the source directory.

You can still use tar. 

After running the tar zcvf .......
run the command tar ztvf .........

to test it again.  The benefit of tar over rsync is that you can save it to 
other filesystems, such as NTFS, memory stick etc. (Although I would never 
trust a memory stick to be my only version)