[linux] CD burning utilities

[Laura Melton]

Hi,

I'm trying to make a backup of (most of) my home directory on CD, but
the problem is that I haven't found a good way to select a lot of
directories that I want combined on a CD.  I've been trying to use GUI
utilities (Arson is the one I've been trying most persistently), but one
problem is that I keep getting insanely huge estimates of how much data
is in these directories, much bigger than I think they actually are.  (I
was going to try to create an iso anyway, in spite of the size estimate,
but I couldn't figure out a way to create an iso without burning a CD.)

It's just occurred to me that I could create a directory, symlink in
everything I want to burn, and then tell mkisofs to use that directory,
but I wanted to ask if anyone else knows anything that would work
better?

Surely I'm not the only one in the world who wants to create an iso
image, including some directories and excluding others!

Thanks,

lbm.
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