[Warty] - backing up /home to CD (Linz)

[rpowersau at gmail.com]

On Apr 3, 2005 1:26 PM, Lindsay <judenlinz at orcon.net.nz> wrote:
> I have been trying to do a back up of my /home directory to a CD.  I
> accomplished this once before, but have never been able to achieve
> success again since.  Nautilus 'almost' freezes trying to make links and
> about an hour later after some CD activity says that There is a missing
> link error.
> 
> What can I do?

Have you tried just making a tarball:

cd /tmp
tar cjf ./my_home_backup.tar.bz2 /home/<your home directory>

Then burning that?

No links needed.  ;-)

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Russ