Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (6210 mails)

[Bruce Marshall <bmarsh@xxxxxxxxxx>]

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.