Hello Nick, I successfully tarred my home directory without compression in michael.tar with a size of 207943680 bytes which should easily be burned to a 700 Meg CD.
Thank you for your detailed instructions which worked beautifully. My friend at the CCNA told me a command I could use to get a text file containing a list of contents in michael.tar. I want to get that list put in a text file (with the txt extension) so that I can check to see whether everything is there. I also want to see whether the configuration .kde directories and tiles and the .mozilla directories and files are saved to the michael.tar file. The reason I want the .kde directories and files and .mozilla directories and files is that I want to be able to restore my mozilla thunderbird address book and filters and need the configuration files to be backed up. I likewise was told by my friend at the CCNA I need the .kde configuration files. If everything checks out I will burn the michael.tar file to the CD. If I have to burn the .kde files and directories and .mozilla files and directories separately to another CD that is all right because CD's are cheap. But I do want to back up my .mozilla configuration files so that I do not lose my thunderbird address book. I do not remember why I should save my .kde configuration files too, but it would not hurt to do so. Thanks again for all your help. Once I do the last couple of steps listed above I will burn the michael.tar file to a CD. Regards, Michael Walters _________________________________________________________________________________ Nick Wiltshire wrote: >The command to tar & gzip is: > >tar -zcf /tmp/michael.tgz /home/michael >(then burn the file /tmp/michael.tgz to CD) > >without compression, remove the z option: > >tar -cf /tmp/michael.tar /home/michael > >add the v option to either command for verbose output, but note the f option >must come LAST: > >tar -zvcf /tmp/michael.tgz /home/michael > >to scroll help: > >tar --help | less > >or > >man tar > >to decompress later: > >tar -zxvf michael.tgz /wherever/you/want > >or if you didn't use compression above: > >tar -xvf michael.tar /wherever/you/want > >Happy tar-ing :) > > >On Monday 14 November 2005 11:43 pm, Michael Walters wrote: > > >>Michael Walters wrote: >> >> >>>Thanks Nick and everyone else, >>> >>>I did a du -h /home/michael and found I am using 181M in /home/michael >>> >>>I did a du -h /tmp and got 17K used in /tmp. >>> >>>Since my usage in /home/michael was only 181M I should be able to put >>>all of my home directory on a 700M CD as 181M is far less than 700M. >>> >>>I was told that I could tar the current directory by doing tar . by a >>>fellow I met at the Calgary Community Network Association. I am going to >>>try that out now and will tell you how it goes. >>> >>> >>I tried tar . and got an error message of tar . invalid operation try >>tar --help. I tried tar --help and a number of lines went by, only the >>last of which I could read. I have forgotten how to scroll through a >>help file. >> >>Regards, >> >>Michael again >> >> >> >>>Regards, >>> >>>Michael Walters >>> >>>__________________________________________ >>> _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [email protected] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) **Please remove these lines when replying
