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

[Lee Hughes]

Distro? what do you mean what distro? it's command line? gnu tar.

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Chad Wollenberg <chad at linuxbasement.com> wrote: 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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