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From: Tom Martin <slarti@g.o>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] What to backup?
Date: Mon, 02 Jan 2006 18:44:55
Message-Id: 20060102184015.491a86a3@pohl.lj.net
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] What to backup? by "Anthony E. Caudel"
1 On Mon, 02 Jan 2006 12:17:59 -0600
2 "Anthony E. Caudel" <acaudel@×××××.com> wrote:
3
4 > I'm using rsnapshot for backups and am very satisfied with it.
5 > However I'm uncertain just what to backup.
6 >
7 > Currently I'm backing up:
8 >
9 > /home/tony/
10 > /etc/
11 > /var/lib/mysql/ (for some databases)
12 >
13 > Is there anything else I should be backing up? I suspect there are
14 > some more things in /var that should be included.
15
16 /var/lib/portage. You'll have your world file, in case you lose
17 everything, so you'll be able to rebuild your system with the same
18 packages.
19
20 --
21 Tom Martin, http://dev.gentoo.org/~slarti
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