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One-step backup and burn to CD/DVD
You could improve a little bit by automatizing saving of any invisibles files in your home directory, making you bullet proof to further installs (.ssh, .gnupg, etc).
One-step backup and burn to CD/DVD
That could be further simplified:
But both this one and yours would prepend /Users/username to the file listing, which may be undesirable. If that is not desired, the following might be better:
preserving resource forks
Not a great solution if you want to preserve resource forks and/or Finder comments. It's pretty likely that at least one file in ~/Library/Preferences has a resource fork and removing it (by restoring from a tar archive) might cause an application to fail or misbehave.
preserving resource forks
to preserve resource forks, you could use hfstar... (available at http://www.metaobject.com/downloads/macos-x/)
preserving resource forks
Or hfspax. I had trouble with it and/or hfstar not handling >2GB archive files but that was a couple years ago and I don't recall the details.
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