Tweaks - 2
To create a new backup file for burning to dvd, use this command line tool -
tar cvzf 20120115.tar.gz 20120115
which is very effective and quite quick too.
To log the output use the following command -
tar cvzf 20120116.tar.gz 20120116 >> /home/boztu/cron/log.txt 2>&1 ...