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From: Mike Doty <kingtaco@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] backups: remove Portage cruft?
Date: Mon, 12 Jun 2006 20:49:11
Message-Id: 448DD194.3020202@gentoo.org
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] backups: remove Portage cruft? by Molle Bestefich
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4 Molle Bestefich wrote:
5 > Hi
6 >
7 > Portage takes up a lot of space and time when doing server backups.
8 >
9 > How much of Portage needs to be backup up?
10 > Any large parts of the tree that I can just dump?
11 >
12 > Thanks!
13 >
14 > CC appreciated :).
15 anything in /usr/portage can be regenerated by syncing. /var/tmp can be
16 dumped too.
17
18 That should be most of the space portage takes
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