[Warty] - backing up /home to CD (Linz)
Lindsay
judenlinz at orcon.net.nz
Sun Apr 3 08:02:58 UTC 2005
I just tried this. Windows opened all over the place but nothing that
seemed to work.
On Sun, 2005-04-03 at 13:53 +0800, rpowersau at gmail.com wrote:
> 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. ;-)
>
> >
> > Linz
> >
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>
> --
> Regards,
> Russ
>
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