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 1IcA8K-0000oc-Cr for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 01 Oct 2007 01:31:40 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.1/8.14.0) with SMTP id l911Jmjd001193; Mon, 1 Oct 2007 01:19:48 GMT Received: from rwcrmhc12.comcast.net (rwcrmhc12.comcast.net [204.127.192.82]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.1/8.14.0) with ESMTP id l9119hBh020307 for ; Mon, 1 Oct 2007 01:09:43 GMT Received: from spore.ath.cx ([24.245.14.14]) by comcast.net (rwcrmhc12) with ESMTP id <20071001010942m1200fethne>; Mon, 1 Oct 2007 01:09:42 +0000 Received: from pascal.spore.ath.cx (pascal.spore.ath.cx [192.168.1.100]) by spore.ath.cx (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1EC2E2497 for ; Sun, 30 Sep 2007 20:09:42 -0500 (CDT) Date: Sun, 30 Sep 2007 20:09:42 -0500 From: Dan Farrell To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Backups Message-ID: <20070930200942.1e10e221@pascal.spore.ath.cx> In-Reply-To: <49bf44f10709291526s46c5c1ebrb34a7171215a3db2@mail.gmail.com> References: <49bf44f10709291526s46c5c1ebrb34a7171215a3db2@mail.gmail.com> 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: d5e03c0b-7235-4195-9494-b80a4bbdfe3c X-Archives-Hash: 34e94758dc2b350b5a1a9b2453d39e83 On Sat, 29 Sep 2007 15:26:07 -0700 Grant wrote: > Do you back up anything other than /etc and /home on a standard > system? > > - Grant Don't forget to back up stuff that can help you rebuild the system quickly. Like /proc/config.gz, or better yet just the kernel and modules you need so you don't have to rebuild at all or generate the sources. Another thing that I think is highly valuable to back up, and very often ignored, is the output of 'fdisk -l'. If your drive dies it's very nice to have a reminder of how it was formatted. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list