Re: [gentoo-user] Backups

[Grant <emailgrant@gmail.com>]

> >>>> 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
>
> I keep them on an USB-stick (udf filesystem, with the same settings like
> a CD-RW).

But where do you put the USB stick?  If my apartment building burns to
the ground while I'm away, I'll lose my systems and the backups.

- Grant
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