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

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