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From: Jason Stubbs <jstubbs@...>
Subject: Re: backups/mirroring with rsync
Date: Mon, 1 Nov 2004 14:33:14 +0900
On Monday 01 November 2004 14:08, Ben Munat wrote:
> PS: I excluded /dev, /mnt, /proc, /sys, /tmp, /var/tmp, /var/cache/edb,
> and /var/db.

/var/db/portage is *the* most important data that portage needs. It contains a 
record of all packages installed, what settings they were installed with and 
what files were installed by them. You really need to be backing this one up.

Regards,
Jason Stubbs

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