Distro? what do you mean what distro? it's command line? gnu tar.<br><br>tar --version<br>tar (GNU tar) 1.18<br>Copyright (C) 2007 Free Software Foundation, Inc.<br>License GPLv2+: GNU GPL version 2 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html><br>This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.<br>There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.<br><br>Written by John Gilmore and Jay Fenlason.<br><br><br><br><br><b><i>Chad Wollenberg <chad@linuxbasement.com></i></b> wrote:<blockquote class="replbq" style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px;"> What distro Lee? Since you only have 20 gigs you might just want to take the easy route and just burn 5 dvds of straight data, don't worry about compression.<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Feb 24, 2008 at 1:56 PM, Lee Hughes <<a href="mailto:toxicnaan@yahoo.co.uk">toxicnaan@yahoo.co.uk</a>> wrote:<br> <blockquote class="gmail_quote"
style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><a href="http://www.cgi-interactive-uk.com/splitting_large_files.html" target="_blank">http://www.cgi-interactive-uk.com/splitting_large_files.html</a><div> <div></div><div class="Wj3C7c"><br><br><b><i>christopher wyllie <<a href="mailto:cgwyllie@googlemail.com" target="_blank">cgwyllie@googlemail.com</a>></i></b> wrote:</div></div><blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px;"> <div><div></div><div class="Wj3C7c"> Hey everyone,<br><br>Sorry if this has been covered before(as it probably has) but I can't find the thread<br><br>Basically I need to backup my /home/christopher folder before I send my laptop away to be serviced. I only have DVDs available at the moment.<br> <br>How is best(abd nist reliable) to do this from a recovery point of view also?<br><br>Can someone list the sort of commands I would need to use for
this? Should I tar it and then split the tar? (If so please explain how :P)<br> <br>I have ~20GB data and a pack of 10 DVDs.<br><br>Any help VERY much appreciated as I have to backup tonight as my laptop goes tomorrow. (Yes I would have done this sooner but my external drive has become lost in shipping or something like it... :( )<br> <br>Thanks all!<br> Chris<br></div></div> _______________________________________________<br>dundee GNU/Linux Users Group mailing list<br><a href="mailto:dundee@lists.lug.org.uk" target="_blank">dundee@lists.lug.org.uk</a> <a href="http://dundee.lug.org.uk" target="_blank">http://dundee.lug.org.uk</a><br> <a href="https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/dundee" target="_blank">https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/dundee</a><br>Chat on IRC, #tlug on <a href="http://dundee.lug.org.uk" target="_blank">dundee.lug.org.uk</a></blockquote> <br><div class="WgoR0d"><div> </div><hr size="1"> Sent from <a
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