Re: Backup home directory

2010-11-02 Thread Nuno Magalhães
You can always dump the big fie into an .iso with mkisofs/genisoimage. Watch out for hidden config files, browsser caches and what not when tar-ing up. I prefer 7z as a compressor. -- Mars 2 Stay! http://xkcd.com/801/ /etc -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with

Re: Backup home directory

2010-11-02 Thread Michal
On 02/11/10 12:15, Alex PADOLY wrote: Hi, Do you know a method to do a compressed image of home directory. I prefer a GNU method. Regards. Alex Une messagerie gratuite, garantie à vie et des services en plus, ça vous tente ? Je crée ma boîte mail www.laposte.net clonezilla might be worth a

Re: Backup home directory

2010-11-02 Thread Christopher Judd
On Tuesday 02 November 2010 08:30:11 Camaleón wrote: > On Tue, 02 Nov 2010 13:15:50 +0100, Alex PADOLY wrote: > > Do you know a method to do a compressed image of home directory. I > > prefer a GNU method. > > My one-liner to make a full backup: > > *** > tar -cvjf /data/backup/sm01/$(date '+%F')

Re: Backup home directory

2010-11-02 Thread Alex PADOLY
Sir, I use XFCE. Regards. > Message du 02/11/10 13:23 > De : "Klistvud" > A : debian-user@lists.debian.org > Copie à : > Objet : Re: Backup home directory > > > Dne, 02. 11. 2010 13:15:50 je Alex PADOLY napisal(a): > > > > Hi, > > >

Re: Backup home directory

2010-11-02 Thread Jochen Schulz
Alex PADOLY: > > Do you know a method to do a compressed image of home directory. Well, if your /home is not a separate filesystem, you cannot really generate an "image". But what about the following? # tar cvzf /backup/home-$(date '+%F').tar.gz /home For a more advanced backup solution, look a

Re: Backup home directory

2010-11-02 Thread Camaleón
On Tue, 02 Nov 2010 13:15:50 +0100, Alex PADOLY wrote: > Do you know a method to do a compressed image of home directory. I > prefer a GNU method. My one-liner to make a full backup: *** tar -cvjf /data/backup/sm01/$(date '+%F').tar.bz2 /home/sm01 --exclude=.local/share/Trash --exclude=.thumbna

Re: Backup home directory

2010-11-02 Thread Klistvud
Dne, 02. 11. 2010 13:15:50 je Alex PADOLY napisal(a): Hi, Do you know a method to do a compressed image of home directory. I prefer a GNU method. Regards. Alex If I'm understanding you correctly, and if you're using Gnome, just right-click on the home folder and select "Create Archive" fro

Backup home directory

2010-11-02 Thread Alex PADOLY
Hi, Do you know a method to do a compressed image of home directory. I prefer a GNU method. Regards. Alex Une messagerie gratuite, garantie à vie et des services en plus, ça vous tente ? Je crée ma boîte mail www.laposte.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org w

Re: [solved] Backup home directory with rsync

2010-10-02 Thread Alberto Luaces
Just a little trick... Rodolfo Medina writes: > $ rsync -vrtu --delete --exclude='/.*' . 192.168.0.2:/home/rodolfo This is equivalent: rsync -vrtu --delete --exclude='/.*' . rodo...@192.168.0.2: or just rsync -vrtu --delete --exclude='/.*' . 192.168.0.2: if you are already `rodolfo' on yo

[solved] Backup home directory with rsync (was: rsync issue)

2010-10-02 Thread Rodolfo Medina
Rodolfo Medina writes: > I wish to copy all my home directory into another machine with the --delete > option, but: > > 1) I dont't want hidden files, i.e.: `.*' to be copied; > > 2) on the other hand, there are some symlinks, beginning with `.', that I >want to be copied. > > The --exclude o