On 18 August 2010 14:34, Neil Bothwick <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tue, 17 Aug 2010 14:14:27 +0200, Maximilian Bräutigam wrote: > > > You should backup all in / except > > /tmp/* > > /sys/* > > /proc/* > > /lost+found/* > > /dev/* > > That backs up a lot of stuff that isn't needed. As long as you have /etc > and /var/lib you can recreate the system. Depending on space vs. time, > you may prefer not to backup the gigabytes in /usr that can be recreated > by portage (although saving /usr/local is a good idea). > > Thanks a lot for the valuable advice. I have a dozen of scripts in /usr/local/bin that I forgot about.
> > By the way, since a new hdd of one TB is pretty cheap, think about > > running your gentoo in a software RAID. Guides: > > RAID is not an alternative to backups, a corrupted filesystem on a RAID is > just as corrupted as if it were on a single disk, you just get extra > copies of the corruption. > > I did not know that. I was thinking of, in couple of months, buying a notebook with two HDDs with RAID1 installed and using the usb drive as a backup destination. So if RAID got corruped, the backups, made since then, would be useless? How would you resolve it? -- > Neil Bothwick > > Despite the cost of living, have you noticed how it remains so popular? >
