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 1Ic17k-0006CV-VA for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 30 Sep 2007 15:54:29 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.1/8.14.0) with SMTP id l8UFhUVK013085; Sun, 30 Sep 2007 15:43:30 GMT Received: from wa-out-1112.google.com (wa-out-1112.google.com [209.85.146.179]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.1/8.14.0) with ESMTP id l8UFaPsE002554 for ; Sun, 30 Sep 2007 15:36:26 GMT Received: by wa-out-1112.google.com with SMTP id k34so4340811wah for ; Sun, 30 Sep 2007 08:36:25 -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=fwJ9bbCc/fX1PEsgeWIM8s5Ni0JGskvJePrkZRcdxlU=; b=ilURnn37GTCw/QWrdqVm1g1cVGiBd4H277XxTynFuQpHywBs4EQR/Z9yH8S4bfJt/6ymqTRsDv0PQHp4uTXpOSCygeGsPKNG+rK3hijDLN+IIhT6v6nOn/abI/h1ggOwNUAQx5jHu4dcLd+2PtuLLrOk8POvp9VQznmGMEtHHbA= 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=Fc61QiqMK8/berOZ7dzbGNphJq89JSPYv5Y3Rjcn4AX6B3oUAMl7Nm8+cLFDfCzXjzLbuOgIxlHviEX2RFd9i2lDiPjz9BHYjXR6cb/ROpum3GC5/uHyKef2J+vMwPgD/+z5lUrBPpU+Wt3vo9+nkh/CiFL+a3nRBBWxOX37tG4= Received: by 10.114.179.1 with SMTP id b1mr3374295waf.1191166585227; Sun, 30 Sep 2007 08:36:25 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.114.175.9 with HTTP; Sun, 30 Sep 2007 08:36:20 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <49bf44f10709300836s790edbfbrac69e84bc36d1d66@mail.gmail.com> Date: Sun, 30 Sep 2007 08:36:20 -0700 From: Grant To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Backups In-Reply-To: <46FF1A46.10903@lix-world.net> 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> <46FF1A46.10903@lix-world.net> X-Archives-Salt: 83a6b759-cf4b-4c5b-b790-042ba462b4d5 X-Archives-Hash: 2a91ca7ef240c3ce2edccdd0ec8fb731 > > Do you back up anything other than /etc and /home on a standard system? > > In a Gentoo system nothing is really standard, so I backup everything > from / and then have a small exclude list with things like: > > /dev, /proc, /sys, /exports, /var/cache/squid, /srv/BackupPC. > > > /var contains the most important files on a Gentoo system, if you loss > the portage installed software information your in a heap of trouble. > Goes both ways though backup of portages var information is less useful > without backup of everything installed. > > > I'm undecided about /usr/portage, I could save some time backing up > /usr/portage/distfiles, but it is easily generated content. > > > > Minimal backup - if your willing to spend the hours on getting thing > back up and running. > > /etc /root /home /usr/local /var 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? I'm OK with a full reinstall for now. - Grant -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list