Ok guys... sounds like I should have posted my excludes before I started 
this.

Do you think it's safe to ctrl-C out of rdiff-backup (it's not even 
halfway through /usr/portage/distfiles)? And, if so, should I exclude 
everything under /usr/portage or just the distfiles directory?

That way, I can change my script back to including /var/db too.

b

PS: just as a side question, should I have multiple version distfiles 
for the same package? Isn't there some way to keep that just to the most 
recent version?


Jason Stubbs wrote:

> 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
>