Re: [gentoo-user] what isn't required to boot a system/what can be trimmed from a backup

[Dale <dalek1967@bellsouth.net>]

forgottenwizard wrote:
> I'm messing around with doing backups via rsync to an external hard
> drive, and I'm wanting to be able to strip out unneeded files from the
> backup (these will be archived by, probably, dar or tar later on), and
> was wondering if someone knew what I could strip out.
>
> Thanks.
>
>   


I'm not sure if I am following you or not but I back up /boot /dev /home 
/sbin /var /bin /data /etc /lib /opt /root /usr when I do mine.  /data 
is where I store most of my data.  I skip /sys, /proc and /tmp since 
those are usually made by the kernel and /tmp is stuff that is cleared 
out when booting anyway. 

If you are asking what I think you are asking, you should be able to 
leave out /sys, /tmp and /proc and be fine.  YMMV.

Dale

:-)  :-)
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