On Mon, 2006-06-12 at 22:36 +0200, 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?

You don't need to backup any of it.  Everything under /usr/portage can
be regained with an "emerge --sync" except distfiles, and those are
redownloaded the next time you merge a package that requires it.

-- 
Chris Gianelloni
Release Engineering - Strategic Lead
x86 Architecture Team
Games - Developer
Gentoo Linux

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