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Originally Posted by ip6ix
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.
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Sure, if you can live with the 4.7 GB max capacity of the disks.
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Originally Posted by ip6ix
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?
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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.