[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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