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On 18 August 2010 14:34, Neil Bothwick <neil@××××××××××.uk> wrote: |
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> On Tue, 17 Aug 2010 14:14:27 +0200, Maximilian Bräutigam wrote: |
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> > You should backup all in / except |
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> > /tmp/* |
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> > /sys/* |
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> > /proc/* |
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> > /lost+found/* |
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> > /dev/* |
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> That backs up a lot of stuff that isn't needed. As long as you have /etc |
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> and /var/lib you can recreate the system. Depending on space vs. time, |
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> you may prefer not to backup the gigabytes in /usr that can be recreated |
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> by portage (although saving /usr/local is a good idea). |
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Thanks a lot for the valuable advice. I have a dozen of scripts in |
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/usr/local/bin |
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that I forgot about. |
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> > By the way, since a new hdd of one TB is pretty cheap, think about |
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> > running your gentoo in a software RAID. Guides: |
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> RAID is not an alternative to backups, a corrupted filesystem on a RAID is |
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> just as corrupted as if it were on a single disk, you just get extra |
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> copies of the corruption. |
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I did not know that. I was thinking of, in couple of months, buying a |
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notebook |
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with two HDDs with RAID1 installed and using the usb drive as a backup |
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destination. So if RAID got corruped, the backups, made since then, would |
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be |
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useless? How would you resolve it? |
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> Neil Bothwick |
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> Despite the cost of living, have you noticed how it remains so popular? |
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