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First tar up your filesystem. You can use gzip to save space. Once that's done copy it over. Make sure you use a good filesystem on the USB device that isn't going to cause data loss. (ie not fat)
Keep in mind that you can't do this live and that copying the archive over will take time and the drive may lie to you. Its always best practice to run sync or eject before unplugging.
I just moved to Linux two days ago and omg there is so much to learn but something I never heard of until 20.minutes ago and again right now is tarring...what is it?
Its a compression program for making file archives.
So basically Zip but better?
Its not necessary better as tar by itself doesn't have compression. You need gzip, bzip2 or something else. On modern systems with gnu tar can handle tar with compression.
If your still curious I would look up how to use it.