How to encrypt and burn to dvdr my home dir?

[Arthur Pemberton]

On 11/26/06, Charles Curley <charlescurley at charlescurley.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 27, 2006 at 04:14:36PM +1800, Arthur Pemberton wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > I would like to backup my home dir to dvdr, as opposed to my usual
> > ext. hdd. What is the most "Fedora way" to do this? Ie. how can I do
> > this using only tools available from core and extras?
> >
> > FYI: I normally use K3B for my optical media writing needs.
>
> I would (as root) tar with compression the whole kazoo:
>
> tar -cvjf backup.tar.bz2 /home/user
>
> then encrypt it, then burn that to DVD.
>
> These days the resulting tarball is likely to exceed DVD capacity. In
> that case experiment with backing up directories that don't change
> very often to one tarball, and directories that change a lot to
> another. If you tar several directories separately, you need a
> catchall tarball to get the rest, something like:
>
> tar -cvjf backup.tar.bz2 --exclude /home/user/foo --exclude /home/user/bar /home/user
>
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I've already slimmed my home dir down enough to fit onto a dvd. How
would you suggest I encrypt the resulting .tar.bz2 file?

Thanks.

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