From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1GcMt0-0004Pm-9k for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 24 Oct 2006 14:04:10 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.6) with SMTP id k9OE20x2002734; Tue, 24 Oct 2006 14:02:00 GMT Received: from smtp.nildram.co.uk (smtp.nildram.co.uk [195.149.33.74]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.6) with ESMTP id k9OE1xIm008340 for ; Tue, 24 Oct 2006 14:01:59 GMT Received: from wstn.prhnet (prh.gotadsl.co.uk [81.6.251.123]) by smtp.nildram.co.uk (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1A8114CE4F; Tue, 24 Oct 2006 15:01:56 +0100 (BST) From: Peter Humphrey To: gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-amd64] Backup techniques Was: audio/vidio apps and glibc-2.5? Date: Tue, 24 Oct 2006 14:01:57 +0000 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.5 References: <4049.210.55.22.193.1161647305.squirrel@drgnfire.is-a-geek.com> In-Reply-To: Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-amd64@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200610241401.58442.prh@gotadsl.co.uk> X-Archives-Salt: d333047e-4b44-4247-bf0b-5fab9b2299d5 X-Archives-Hash: e898d741a3ce15a952cfe17dcf5426b8 On Tuesday 24 October 2006 13:04, Duncan wrote: > For least trouble managing it, the goal in Gentoo terms should be to > include everything installed by portage, together with the portage > database (in /var/db), ... Personally, I don't bother backing-up /var/db since it's easily recreated with emerge --metadata. -- Rgds Peter -- gentoo-amd64@gentoo.org mailing list