backing up /home

[John]

Bo Rosén wrote:
> Hi all,
> When Warty goes gold in a couple of days, I plan on wiping and
> reformating my whole system as well as adding a new hdd. However, my
> home partition would be pretty good to have so I'm going to back that up
> to dvd and then copy over the files I need and want into Ubuntu. Looking
> at mkisofs I'm a bit overwhelmed at all the options, so I was wondering
> how people would do it. What options would you suggest I use and are
> there any pitfalls to look out for?
> 
> Thanks,
>        Bo

man growisofs
Note the restrictions on using sudo for this.

Something like this:
growisofs -Z /dev/scd0 -R /home

Eyeball the results. I think you don't want "-r" (instead of "-R") for 
this as permissions get rationalised.

I've recently transferred a (cyrus) mailstore and other stuff this way. 
The main problems were things I missed. Like /etc/procmailrc:-(