On 18 August 2010 14:34, Neil Bothwick <neil@digimed.co.uk> wrote:

> On Tue, 17 Aug 2010 14:14:27 +0200, Maximilian Bräutigam wrote:
>
> > You should backup all in / except
> > /tmp/*
> > /sys/*
> > /proc/*
> > /lost+found/*
> > /dev/*
>
> That backs up a lot of stuff that isn't needed. As long as you have /etc
> and /var/lib you can recreate the system. Depending on space vs. time,
> you may prefer not to backup the gigabytes in /usr that can be recreated
> by portage (although saving /usr/local is a good idea).
>
>
Thanks a lot for the valuable advice. I have a dozen of scripts in
/usr/local/bin
that I forgot about.


>  > By the way, since a new hdd of one TB is pretty cheap, think about
> > running your gentoo in a software RAID. Guides:
>
> RAID is not an alternative to backups, a corrupted filesystem on a RAID is
> just as corrupted as if it were on a single disk, you just get extra
> copies of the corruption.
>
>
I did not know that. I was thinking of, in couple of months, buying a
notebook
with two HDDs with RAID1 installed and using the usb drive as a backup
destination. So if RAID got corruped, the backups, made since then, would
be
useless? How would you resolve it?

 --
> Neil Bothwick
>
> Despite the cost of living, have you noticed how it remains so popular?
>