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On Mon, 2006-06-12 at 22:36 +0200, Molle Bestefich wrote: |
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> Hi |
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> Portage takes up a lot of space and time when doing server backups. |
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> How much of Portage needs to be backup up? |
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> Any large parts of the tree that I can just dump? |
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You don't need to backup any of it. Everything under /usr/portage can |
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be regained with an "emerge --sync" except distfiles, and those are |
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redownloaded the next time you merge a package that requires it. |
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Chris Gianelloni |
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Release Engineering - Strategic Lead |
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x86 Architecture Team |
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