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 1IblzM-00059G-WA for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 29 Sep 2007 23:44:49 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.1/8.14.0) with SMTP id l8TNYnCD026600; Sat, 29 Sep 2007 23:34:49 GMT Received: from wa-out-1112.google.com (wa-out-1112.google.com [209.85.146.178]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.1/8.14.0) with ESMTP id l8TNSdew017763 for ; Sat, 29 Sep 2007 23:28:39 GMT Received: by wa-out-1112.google.com with SMTP id k34so4107635wah for ; Sat, 29 Sep 2007 16:28:37 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; bh=zG35u6vrfpFBoBZsTDe9PYmsj8uz1drCk1ygkEL6MUM=; b=fPxQN47kA8DuHUzyZ8sxSiaAsTuwFfK5lqhkHRLrAMGiIn2n8zfz/dIBRiR4Wi0556UXdIa8FnIp0/rqth1yMhiBXrSkqlzTfwgYsdkz0C9NjNNtgeECg2B1DwXXt9qBqw2ZCZr/k+3LDdUru1xv+vTRrUdpdACrWIzam6RH78s= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=iGfX+jKBD7vkUVqSfQvzrMeneQYjy4prfOtVa5dFPbBkIn7W2BcoAaw1JyRoG2zZBxuffOwEbGEPwlgfMzgTckzqgoE/XUA7hiUATge7rgwL6+XbGZHaENdpf1Zhxy8rzFrjEcf1oCRgv1jAFkyNKBP7vUF0K1Z23i9vzwceaeg= Received: by 10.114.92.2 with SMTP id p2mr376889wab.1191108516994; Sat, 29 Sep 2007 16:28:36 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.114.175.9 with HTTP; Sat, 29 Sep 2007 16:28:36 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <49bf44f10709291628l7647a988w4b8cfd33a9dae945@mail.gmail.com> Date: Sat, 29 Sep 2007 16:28:36 -0700 From: Grant To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Backups In-Reply-To: <200709300106.50351.volker.armin.hemmann@tu-clausthal.de> 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=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <49bf44f10709291526s46c5c1ebrb34a7171215a3db2@mail.gmail.com> <200709300106.50351.volker.armin.hemmann@tu-clausthal.de> X-Archives-Salt: 36fb8aa5-22d0-46cb-84ba-60c4eb3e04a2 X-Archives-Hash: 03064f613cf6684db8b081089d8ff471 > > Do you back up anything other than /etc and /home on a standard system? > > > > - Grant > > /var because with /var gone its complete-reinstall time. Do you back up hidden files and directories in the home directory? There seems to be a lot of junk in there. Does something like '--exclude "/home/user/.*"' work with tar? - Grant -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list