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Old 2nd February 2018
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Originally Posted by ip6ix View Post
1. Are dvd-ram disks a good medium for backup? Bearing in mind the total size of the data I wish to backup (i.e. the /home partition) is only about 5Gigs and is unlikely to rise much above two or three times that amount, at least for now.
Sure, if you can live with the 4.7 GB max capacity of the disks.

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2. Any recommendations of the best backup software to use? I'm only backing up the /home partition, so a fairly simple approach is probably best... Would dump/restore be a good choice?
What are you trying to back up? Just some files? dump(8) is pretty good then. Or you could go real basic and do something like:
Code:
$ cd
$ cd ..
$ doas tar -cz -f ip6ix-`date +%Y%m%d` ip6ix/
Which would simply make a tarball of your $HOME (assuming your username is ip6ix). And then you can drop the tarball onto your DVD-RAM.
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