I was trying to get my data on DVD for a backup. I did some test but it didn't
work out as I expected and I couldn' t get it straight.

of course I have a directory /home/user
when I do
growisofs -Z /dev/dvd -J /home

I would have epxected the files on the dvd to be

/mnt/dvd/home/user

instead it is
/mnt/dvd/user

So how can I tell growisofs (resp. mkisofs) that I want the directory /home
also to be on the disc?

I understood that for this problem I may have to use graft-points but I didn't
really understand the explanation and when I tried to do this I got the same
result as without it.

Another issue is, can I limit the backup to a directorylevel?

i.e. in
/mnt/data1

I only want to have mnt and data1 (but not its content) on the disc.
When I could specify the level of the nesting it wouldn' t help because I also
have
/mnt/windows/C

where of course I want to structure of the directory to be the same.

In that particular case I can of course unmount all filesystems and only
backup the ones that I really want to have.


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Gerhard Gruber
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