From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Ic9wf-0000M0-2H for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 01 Oct 2007 01:19:37 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.1/8.14.0) with SMTP id l91193pV019757; Mon, 1 Oct 2007 01:09:03 GMT Received: from rwcrmhc15.comcast.net (rwcrmhc15.comcast.net [216.148.227.155]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.1/8.14.0) with ESMTP id l9113Qe2012369 for ; Mon, 1 Oct 2007 01:03:27 GMT Received: from spore.ath.cx ([24.245.14.14]) by comcast.net (rwcrmhc15) with ESMTP id <20071001010326m1500c5r8ge>; Mon, 1 Oct 2007 01:03:26 +0000 Received: from pascal.spore.ath.cx (pascal.spore.ath.cx [192.168.1.100]) by spore.ath.cx (Postfix) with ESMTP id AB1CF338 for ; Sun, 30 Sep 2007 20:03:25 -0500 (CDT) Date: Sun, 30 Sep 2007 20:03:25 -0500 From: Dan Farrell To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Backups Message-ID: <20070930200325.47fd8a89@pascal.spore.ath.cx> In-Reply-To: <20070930201504.572d8094@krikkit.digimed.co.uk> References: <49bf44f10709291526s46c5c1ebrb34a7171215a3db2@mail.gmail.com> <46FF1A46.10903@lix-world.net> <49bf44f10709300836s790edbfbrac69e84bc36d1d66@mail.gmail.com> <20070930201504.572d8094@krikkit.digimed.co.uk> Organization: Spore, Ltd. X-Mailer: Claws Mail 2.9.1 (GTK+ 2.10.13; x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: c31ecd45-2e81-4140-8551-eea183814d56 X-Archives-Hash: b4ceaf091be18db5958a64fb3cb096f6 On Sun, 30 Sep 2007 20:15:04 +0100 Neil Bothwick wrote: > Hello Grant, > > > For now I think I'll do /etc, /root, /home, /var/lib/portage/world, > > /usr/src/linux/.config, and anything specific I might need in > > /usr/local. What else am I missing out on in /var? > > Other data in /var/lib. For example, any databases kept > in /var/lib/mysql. > > BIND, Apache, various mailing programs, at, Xauth, logs if you want to know what happened on a particular computer six months from now (hard to foresee this kind of thing). I think you can clear out /var/tmp if you wish. Also many of the logs can be cleared and such. After clearing all the data you don't need (be careful; some data is important to portage), you shouldn't have too much more than a few hundred megs, pretty much all highly compressable text. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list