Hi. I'm one of those guys who live on the edge (i.e. I don't back things up), but I'll soon send my laptop away for repair (the CPU has fried the fan bearings so they sound awful) so I'd like to do some kind of minimum backup.
I don't feel any need to have the system up and running quickly, should anything fail, all I want is to save enough of the config so I can rebuild the system if I need to. I use the machine as a workstation, so I don't think there are many important config files outside /etc. If I back up all home directories, /etc, the kernel config file and /var/cache/edb/world, would that be enough? If I had to restore, I suppose I'd do a stage1 install, copy the old /etc stuff inte /etc and then do emerge < world And reinstall the home directories. Would this give me my old system back? /Rasmus Wiman http://rasmus.wiman.org http://dagbok.wiman.org I program my home computer Beam myself into the future -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
