Re: Backup home directory
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').tar.bz2 /home/sm01
> --exclude=.local/share/Trash --exclude=.thumbnails ***
>
> That will create a (big) file under "/data/backup/sm01/2010-11-02.tar.bz2"
> of the whole "/home/sm01" minus the Trash folder and Thumbnails image
> cache.
>
> Not an ISO image though, just a plain ".tar.bz2"
>
I do something similar, except using the -X option and a file listing the
directories to exclude (since there are several):
tar -cjf /backup/judd.`date +%Y%m%d`.tbz2 -X .tar_exclude .[0-z]* *
-Chris
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