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From: Florian Philipp <f.philipp@××××××.de>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Backups
Date: Sun, 30 Sep 2007 17:06:12
Message-Id: 46FFD425.10406@addcom.de
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Backups by Grant
1 Grant schrieb:
2 >>>> Do you back up anything other than /etc and /home on a standard system?
3 >>> In a Gentoo system nothing is really standard, so I backup everything
4 >>> from / and then have a small exclude list with things like:
5 >>>
6 >>> /dev, /proc, /sys, /exports, /var/cache/squid, /srv/BackupPC.
7 >>>
8 >>>
9 >>> /var contains the most important files on a Gentoo system, if you loss
10 >>> the portage installed software information your in a heap of trouble.
11 >>> Goes both ways though backup of portages var information is less useful
12 >>> without backup of everything installed.
13 >>>
14 >>>
15 >>> I'm undecided about /usr/portage, I could save some time backing up
16 >>> /usr/portage/distfiles, but it is easily generated content.
17 >>>
18 >>>
19 >>>
20 >>> Minimal backup - if your willing to spend the hours on getting thing
21 >>> back up and running.
22 >>>
23 >>> /etc /root /home /usr/local /var
24 >> For now I think I'll do /etc, /root, /home, /var/lib/portage/world,
25 >> /usr/src/linux/.config, and anything specific I might need in
26 >> /usr/local. What else am I missing out on in /var? I'm OK with a
27 >> full reinstall for now.
28 >>
29 >> - Grant
30 >
31 > Where do you guys store your backups? Leaving backups on a DVD in the
32 > same apartment as the machines doesn't make too much sense to me.
33 > Maybe I should mail em to my parents every week or something?
34 >
35 > - Grant
36
37 I keep them on an USB-stick (udf filesystem, with the same settings like
38 a CD-RW).
39
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Re: [gentoo-user] Backups Grant <emailgrant@×××××.com>