[gentoo-user] What to backup?

[gentoo-user] What to backup?

[Anthony E. Caudel]

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.

Tony
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Re: [gentoo-user] What to backup?

[Tom Martin]

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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.

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Re: [gentoo-user] What to backup?

[Neil Bothwick]

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On Mon, 02 Jan 2006 12:17:59 -0600, Anthony E. Caudel wrote:

> Is there anything else I should be backing up?  I suspect there are some
>  more things in /var that should be included.

/var/db/pkg
/var/lib/portage/


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Re: [gentoo-user] What to backup?

[Anthony E. Caudel]

Tom Martin wrote:

> /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.
> 
Good idea.  Thanks!

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