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 1Ic21W-0008QO-G0 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 30 Sep 2007 16:52:06 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.1/8.14.0) with SMTP id l8UGf8Cd025466; Sun, 30 Sep 2007 16:41:08 GMT Received: from wa-out-1112.google.com (wa-out-1112.google.com [209.85.146.176]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.1/8.14.0) with ESMTP id l8UGXbUo015206 for ; Sun, 30 Sep 2007 16:33:38 GMT Received: by wa-out-1112.google.com with SMTP id k34so4352984wah for ; Sun, 30 Sep 2007 09:33:37 -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=d1LIxd6hrLAo2nb/8mJpmIKu0x/Iij0HSu3SekztI2c=; b=g5iPG1l4GoFH6phNca8fJvf5igZvz8U46A/LIkcpk7rBJbhpmcf4t6RHXbH03gaC9PZ9sbnJ1QG4kWi6TfvZtawWYJylX7gysp3U89QHwUp2WgZEDenP+n/W7HMAzEol5Y1cFLMXV+fJDYDCQ81KaXuue+8X+55b100Ihb/5tmo= 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=ZeCEiJGlGmtOeetsyymVl81qjjQA+3MOTUaLrcaJu4CEzXnbG5uWYLASSli3cKK2NHryHnUWZUt2Ma38NbgbZ2vAuoeS0Co15jAieK/gO4JecYmFq3bvcCyg0qPtQ32mrF+F69xYzxuNPin5wNcSTpIQoVjwyWyd1vEraNWTGsw= Received: by 10.114.131.9 with SMTP id e9mr3504056wad.1191170017274; Sun, 30 Sep 2007 09:33:37 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.114.175.9 with HTTP; Sun, 30 Sep 2007 09:33:37 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <49bf44f10709300933m6577d64csf1709c324541b48a@mail.gmail.com> Date: Sun, 30 Sep 2007 09:33:37 -0700 From: Grant To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Backups In-Reply-To: <49bf44f10709300836s790edbfbrac69e84bc36d1d66@mail.gmail.com> 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> <49bf44f10709300836s790edbfbrac69e84bc36d1d66@mail.gmail.com> X-Archives-Salt: 40e0c667-54c5-401c-bb9c-2fb2b61d074e X-Archives-Hash: d55dcb59ed4dd594b8a38951c3ff3723 > > > 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 Where do you guys store your backups? Leaving backups on a DVD in the same apartment as the machines doesn't make too much sense to me. Maybe I should mail em to my parents every week or something? - Grant -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list