snapshot of home

Thufir Hawat hawat.thufir at gmail.com
Sun Jan 29 05:26:40 UTC 2012


On Sat, 28 Jan 2012 20:57:49 -0500, Rashkae wrote:


> mkdir /tmp/backup-home
> cd
> tar -cj . | split -b 4.2G - /tmp/backup-home/backup.tar.bz.
> 
> When finished, you should have a bunch of backup files in the
> /tmp/backup-home folder.


Ah, interesting, just tar.   That would work fine I think.  Will that 
split a file in half?  To put it all back together, do I need all discs?


-Thufir





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