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On Sunday, 19 June 2022 18:22:34 BST Grant Edwards wrote: |
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> On 2022-06-19, Francisco Ares <frares@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> > Just for the sake of preventing a future failure, besides personal |
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> > files (minimum and obvious) the "world" file and the binary packages, |
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> > built along with the package installation, what else should I backup |
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> > so that I would be able to quickly restore the same full working |
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> > Gentoo in a new hardware without having to work from stage3 up? The |
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> > portage tree is one of those items, for sure. But what else? |
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> Make a backup copy of everything under /etc. |
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> I used to try to backup individual /etc/... files that I would need, |
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> but I always forgot something. |
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> -- |
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> Grant |
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Yes, besides /var/lib/portage/world and /etc/ you may also want to back up |
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your /boot and kernel config, assuming the hardware (MoBo & peripherals) is the |
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same (same drivers). I wouldn't bother backing up portage, a resync will |
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download it afresh. You might want to save /distfiles if you're on a slow |
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Internet link, but it has to be a copy of the current versions, otherwise the |
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latest version of each package source will have to be downloaded anyway. |
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If you're running databases you'll also want to keep a backup of the |
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respective /var/lib/*sql directory and if you're running a webserver /var/www/ |
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* - but you would be aware of the need to keep a fresh backup of all this data |
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anyway. |
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