If you mount a disk on /mnt/backup , then rsync your ~ to
/mnt/backup/bmike/ ,

> that means that /mnt/backup/bmike/ will contain an exact copy of your ~.
>  This
> means that finding 1 file under /mnt/backup/bmike/ and copying it to
> /home/bmike/ should be a very simple and easy thing.
>
Yeah,
>

Yeah, this is what I thought but when I tried to find the usbdrive it isn't
there.
bmike1@PresarioLapTop1:~$ sudo mount /dev/sdc /mnt/sdc
mount: no medium found on /dev/sdc
bmike1@PresarioLapTop1:~$ ls /mnt/backup
ls: reading directory /mnt/backup: Input/output error

How does one list from a device with a label?