creating an ISO image of $HOME

Hello,

I need to back up my home directory (from an account that I do not use
frequently any more). I was thinking of creating an ISO image of the same.
How can I do that?

While here I had another question relating to backups - whats a good
way/tool to incremently back up my $HOME directory (on an active account)?


Thanks,

-K

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Re: creating an ISO image of $HOME

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On 04-23, Karthik Vishwanath wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I need to back up my home directory (from an account that I do not use
> frequently any more). I was thinking of creating an ISO image of the same.
> How can I do that?

Check out the program 'mkisofs' that comes with 'cdrecord'...



> While here I had another question relating to backups - whats a good
> way/tool to incremently back up my $HOME directory (on an active account)?

Run 'mkisofs' and pipe it to 'cdrecord' making a temporary
backup to a RW CD...


HTH.


Hal - in Terra Alta, WV - Slackware GNU/Linux 9.0 (2.4.20)

Anyone can pile complexity upon complexity;
only a genius can truly simplify..
..

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