Michael Trausch <fd0man+spam@gmail.com> wrote:
> Now, remount the target filesystem readonly, and tar it up.
>
> # mount /home -o ro,remount
> # tar lcvvf /tmp/homefs.tar /home
>
> If that was successful, then compress it. I recommend bzip2 or if you
> have it, a 7zip program:

You can do the tar and bzip2 in one pass, by adding the "j" option to the
tar commandline (and changing the output file name for clarity, of course).

> # bzip2 --best /tmp/homefs.tar

Note that "--best" is the default behaviour, so doesn't really do anything:
The --fast and --best aliases are primarily for GNU gzip compatibility.
In particular, --fast doesn't make things significantly faster.
And --best merely selects the default behaviour.
(from the man page, a bit reformatted).
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