Re: [gentoo-user] what isn't required to boot a system/what can be trimmed from a backup

2008-03-13 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Wed, 2008-03-12 at 22:48 -0500, forgottenwizard wrote: On 11:18 Thu 13 Mar , Iain Buchanan wrote: On Tue, 2008-03-11 at 23:10 -0500, forgottenwizard wrote: define unneeded. This is highly system dependant, as everyone puts important files all over the place. Things I

Re: [gentoo-user] what isn't required to boot a system/what can be trimmed from a backup

2008-03-13 Thread Mateusz A. Mierzwin'ski
forgottenwizard pisze: On 23:29 Tue 11 Mar , Logan McKenna wrote: I just use mkstage4.sh which can be found on the forums. Works great for me On Tue, Mar 11, 2008 at 11:10 PM, forgottenwizard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm messing around with doing backups via rsync to an external

Re: [gentoo-user] what isn't required to boot a system/what can be trimmed from a backup

2008-03-13 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 12 Mar 2008 22:48:09 -0500, forgottenwizard wrote: I'd say you _need_ /dev /proc and /sys. I'd like to know why. Some of the files in /proc change often, and cause rsync a problem. sys doesn't cause these problems, though. You definitely don't want to backup /proc and /sys as they

Re: [gentoo-user] what isn't required to boot a system/what can be trimmed from a backup

2008-03-13 Thread forgottenwizard
On 09:43 Thu 13 Mar , Mateusz A. Mierzwin'ski wrote: You should stop using rsync. Why? I've think like You couple days ago. Rsync is good but, when i record DVD with backup files of OS and try to restore by rsync then I started to waiting for files counting... and waiting... and

Re: [gentoo-user] what isn't required to boot a system/what can be trimmed from a backup

2008-03-12 Thread forgottenwizard
On 23:29 Tue 11 Mar , Logan McKenna wrote: I just use mkstage4.sh which can be found on the forums. Works great for me On Tue, Mar 11, 2008 at 11:10 PM, forgottenwizard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm messing around with doing backups via rsync to an external hard drive, and I'm

Re: [gentoo-user] what isn't required to boot a system/what can be trimmed from a backup

2008-03-12 Thread Dale
forgottenwizard wrote: I'm messing around with doing backups via rsync to an external hard drive, and I'm wanting to be able to strip out unneeded files from the backup (these will be archived by, probably, dar or tar later on), and was wondering if someone knew what I could strip out. Thanks.

Re: [gentoo-user] what isn't required to boot a system/what can be trimmed from a backup

2008-03-12 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Tue, 2008-03-11 at 23:10 -0500, forgottenwizard wrote: I'm messing around with doing backups via rsync to an external hard drive, and I'm wanting to be able to strip out unneeded files from the backup define unneeded. This is highly system dependant, as everyone puts important files all

Re: [gentoo-user] what isn't required to boot a system/what can be trimmed from a backup

2008-03-12 Thread forgottenwizard
On 11:18 Thu 13 Mar , Iain Buchanan wrote: On Tue, 2008-03-11 at 23:10 -0500, forgottenwizard wrote: define unneeded. This is highly system dependant, as everyone puts important files all over the place. Things I would lose if I backed them up. Doing a prior backup, some files in

[gentoo-user] what isn't required to boot a system/what can be trimmed from a backup

2008-03-11 Thread forgottenwizard
I'm messing around with doing backups via rsync to an external hard drive, and I'm wanting to be able to strip out unneeded files from the backup (these will be archived by, probably, dar or tar later on), and was wondering if someone knew what I could strip out. Thanks. --

Re: [gentoo-user] what isn't required to boot a system/what can be trimmed from a backup

2008-03-11 Thread Logan McKenna
I just use mkstage4.sh which can be found on the forums. Works great for me On Tue, Mar 11, 2008 at 11:10 PM, forgottenwizard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm messing around with doing backups via rsync to an external hard drive, and I'm wanting to be able to strip out unneeded files from the