From: Tom Martin <slarti@gentoo.org>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] What to backup?
Date: Mon, 2 Jan 2006 18:40:15 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060102184015.491a86a3@pohl.lj.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <43B96E57.207@gt.rr.com>
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On Mon, 02 Jan 2006 12:17:59 -0600
"Anthony E. Caudel" <acaudel@gt.rr.com> wrote:
> I'm using rsnapshot for backups and am very satisfied with it.
> However I'm uncertain just what to backup.
>
> Currently I'm backing up:
>
> /home/tony/
> /etc/
> /var/lib/mysql/ (for some databases)
>
> Is there anything else I should be backing up? I suspect there are
> some more things in /var that should be included.
/var/lib/portage. You'll have your world file, in case you lose
everything, so you'll be able to rebuild your system with the same
packages.
--
Tom Martin, http://dev.gentoo.org/~slarti
AMD64, net-mail, shell-tools, vim, recruiters
Gentoo Linux
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Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-01-02 18:17 [gentoo-user] What to backup? Anthony E. Caudel
2006-01-02 18:40 ` Tom Martin [this message]
2006-01-02 19:38 ` Anthony E. Caudel
2006-01-02 18:45 ` Neil Bothwick
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