On Fri, 2005-11-18 at 16:20 +1000, david walcroft wrote: > I want to compress my whole [/] system to burn on to a dvd-r dl,my sys > is about 10.5GB,what is the best way to achieve this when my sys is > 'live' and constantly changes. Boot off of a CD. But why do you want to do this? I can understand archiving /home and /etc - and some stuff in /var (databases etc. - though databases really should be dumped before backup) - but why / ?
