Backing up gentoo with multiple tar volumes

[keithreilly]

After doing a stage 1 install and many days of compiling on my PII I would like to back up gentoo so i don't have to do it again incase something happens. The easiest way to me seems to be just to tar everything up and burn it to cd. It won't fit on one cd of course and in the tar manuel it says to use the -M option to go into multiple volumes. Thing is it assumes your going directly on the meduim you want to archive on.. because when you run out of space it says to just put in another (tape, disk, etc.) however i don't have a cd burner in that computer. I want to make 700mb multiple volumes and transfer them through the network to a computer that can burn them. what is the easiest way to do this. or if anyone has a better idea to back up the system.


keith

[KH]

RAR compression can accept stdin (a pipe from tar), compression, and voluming.

Compression would save you a lot of space, just set it really low - unless you want to spend more time compressing than you did compiling your system in the first place....