[dundee] archive/backup my /home to DVD help please

[Chad Wollenberg]

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.

On Sun, Feb 24, 2008 at 1:56 PM, Lee Hughes <toxicnaan at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:

> http://www.cgi-interactive-uk.com/splitting_large_files.html
>
>
> *christopher wyllie <cgwyllie at googlemail.com>* wrote:
>
> Hey everyone,
>
> Sorry if this has been covered before(as it probably has) but I can't find
> the thread
>
> 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.
>
> How is best(abd nist reliable) to do this from a recovery point of view
> also?
>
> 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)
>
> I have ~20GB data and a pack of 10 DVDs.
>
> 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... :( )
>
> Thanks all!
>   Chris
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