On Mon, Jun 12, 2006 at 03:41:56PM -0500, Mike Doty wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Molle Bestefich wrote: > > Hi > > > > Portage takes up a lot of space and time when doing server backups. > > > > How much of Portage needs to be backup up? > > Any large parts of the tree that I can just dump? > > > > Thanks! > > > > CC appreciated :). > anything in /usr/portage can be regenerated by syncing. /var/tmp can be > dumped too. > > That should be most of the space portage takes You should also be able to ditch /var/cache/edb/dep/ safely. Do make sure you back up the base /var/cache/edb/ and /var/lib/portage/
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