Steen Eugen Poulsen schrieb:
Grant skrev:
Do you back up anything other than /etc and /home on a standard system?
In a Gentoo system nothing is really standard, so I backup everything
from / and then have a small exclude list with things like:
/dev, /proc, /sys, /exports, /var/cache/squid, /srv/BackupPC.
/var contains the most important files on a Gentoo system, if you loss
the portage installed software information your in a heap of trouble.
Goes both ways though backup of portages var information is less useful
without backup of everything installed.
I'd like to know which parts from /var are actually needed. Do we need
anything more than /var/mail, /var/lib/portage/world and /var/log?
/var/db seems to contain data about installed packages but since we
don't back up /usr (when doing a minimal backup) we have to reemerge
everything and these data should be regenerated automatically, don't you
think?
Minimal backup - if your willing to spend the hours on getting thing
back up and running.
/etc /root /home /usr/local /var
I'd add /proc/config.gz to save the kernel config.
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