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Connect a large and fast portable hard drive. USB3 or eSATA is preferable.
Format and prepare the hard drive as EXT3.
Use rsync
to copy the Ahsay backup user's home directory to the portable drive:
This example command shows usage with a non-standard SSH port and compression to improve speed over a WAN link:
rsync -avrz -e 'ssh -p 2222' --progress root@obs1.sonoracomm.com:/opt/obs/user/<name> /media/gcooper/250GB-USB/