From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) (using TLSv1.3 with cipher TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 (256/256 bits) key-exchange X25519 server-signature RSA-PSS (2048 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id C16C5158091 for ; Sun, 19 Jun 2022 17:22:46 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id D1B1EE0A5B; Sun, 19 Jun 2022 17:22:40 +0000 (UTC) Received: from ciao.gmane.io (ciao.gmane.io [116.202.254.214]) (using TLSv1.3 with cipher TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 (256/256 bits) key-exchange ECDHE (P-256) server-signature RSA-PSS (4096 bits) server-digest SHA256) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 72C9BE09BB for ; Sun, 19 Jun 2022 17:22:40 +0000 (UTC) Received: from list by ciao.gmane.io with local (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1o2ydC-0000RK-Tt for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Sun, 19 Jun 2022 19:22:38 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org From: Grant Edwards Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: Reinstall Date: Sun, 19 Jun 2022 17:22:34 -0000 (UTC) Message-ID: References: <9e0db2a3-cbaa-d9d3-6022-6c7af5953bd9@csc.uni-frankfurt.de> <20220511193442.29dad2fc@digimed.co.uk> <3e640fa5-ed93-8752-cf33-ccb707ec07e9@youngman.org.uk> User-Agent: slrn/1.0.3 (Linux) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org X-Auto-Response-Suppress: DR, RN, NRN, OOF, AutoReply X-Archives-Salt: 7e698960-04d0-48c4-bed5-42559823b974 X-Archives-Hash: 276b7c4e8b26e2811b3a45dec54fe334 On 2022-06-19, Francisco Ares wrote: > Just for the sake of preventing a future failure, besides personal > files (minimum and obvious) the "world" file and the binary packages, > built along with the package installation, what else should I backup > so that I would be able to quickly restore the same full working > Gentoo in a new hardware without having to work from stage3 up? The > portage tree is one of those items, for sure. But what else? Make a backup copy of everything under /etc. I used to try to backup individual /etc/... files that I would need, but I always forgot something. -- Grant