Re: Backup across multiple DVD's

NoOp wrote:
Anyone have a good utility or advise for performing a system backup
across multiple DVD's? I've tried simplebackup & K3b but neither of
those seem to allow backing up to more than one DVD. I have about 30GB
that I'm trying to save - standard /home /etc directories.


Do you have enough free harddrive space to store a compressed copy of
your backup set? I just use tar, split and growisofs (or k3b, if you
prefer).

Examples:

tar -C / -xj home | split -b 2000m - /somewhere/home_date.tar.bz.

Then I use regular dvd burning utils to burn the resulting files to
disc, two files per disc.

It's not as elegant as auto-backup software, but it's very reliable.. I
don't need any special software to restore if I ever have too, the
backups are near universal.


Note that if you're backing up /home like this, you'll have to find
somewhere outside of home to store the backup files, or use tar command
options to exclude the directory where you put them.


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