snapshot of home

[Rashkae]

On 01/27/2012 11:55 PM, Thufir Hawat wrote:
> I just want to, once, backup user data in home, a snapshot(?).  Which is
> better bacula, rsync, other?  It's many GB onto CD's.
>
>
> thanks,
>
> Thufir

Good DVD multi-recorders can be bought for less than $30 US.  Time to 
upgrade.

Assuming you have enough free space in the root filesystem.

mkdir /tmp/backup-home
cd
tar -cj . | split -b 4.2G - /tmp/backup-home/backup.tar.bz.

When finished, you should have a bunch of backup files in the 
/tmp/backup-home folder.  Write each one to a DVD.  You can adjust the 
4.2G to whatever is appropriate for the media you want to use (CD's for 
masochits, or double layer DVD, or even BD.) When done, delete the 
backup files from /tmp

rm /tmp/backup-home -rf