On Thursday 20 October 2005 11:22 am, Janus Sandsgaard wrote:
I feel comfortable about using tar. A primitive way to do my backup would be to make 2 tar-files:
photos + documents 4,4 GB mail +.kde, 3,5 GB
and burn them on each their DVD.
Can I simply do that? If tar is OK with files around 4,5 GB is there anything special I have to worry about when burning the DVD (settings, formats etc)?
Just a few more comment about dar: 1) It allows you to set the compression factor 2) It allows you to *not* compress specified filetypes #Exclude some files from compression -Z *.jpg -Z *.gz -Z *.bz2 -Z *.bin -Z *.so -Z *.png -Z *.gif -Z *bin/* -Z *sbin/* -Z *.rpm What you mention above is certainly do-able. dar might be something to look at long term.