How to encrypt and burn to dvdr my home dir?
Charles Curley
charlescurley at charlescurley.com
Mon Nov 27 00:40:11 UTC 2006
On Mon, Nov 27, 2006 at 04:14:36PM +1800, Arthur Pemberton wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I would like to backup my home dir to dvdr, as opposed to my usual
> ext. hdd. What is the most "Fedora way" to do this? Ie. how can I do
> this using only tools available from core and extras?
>
> FYI: I normally use K3B for my optical media writing needs.
I would (as root) tar with compression the whole kazoo:
tar -cvjf backup.tar.bz2 /home/user
then encrypt it, then burn that to DVD.
These days the resulting tarball is likely to exceed DVD capacity. In
that case experiment with backing up directories that don't change
very often to one tarball, and directories that change a lot to
another. If you tar several directories separately, you need a
catchall tarball to get the rest, something like:
tar -cvjf backup.tar.bz2 --exclude /home/user/foo --exclude /home/user/bar /home/user
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