Most tutorials suggest not to backup tmp and var etc. I decided to backup the whole var.
What do you suggest? I though rsnapshot was ok? ps. On linux i was using backintime (which uses rsync) but it seems its no longer on the packages. On 06/13/17 19:05, Paolo Aglialoro wrote: > +1 > > Have a full snapshot of your system, otherwise restore will be a nightmare. > Do it with another tool, rsnapshot is mostly useful for data. > > Il 13 giu 2017 11:05 AM, "Mark Carroll" <m...@ixod.org> ha scritto: > >> On 13 Jun 2017, G. wrote: >> >>> Hello! >>> Im trying to take daily and weekly backups of my system rsnapshot. >> (snip) >>> Im not sure if there is anything in var that i should consider backup >>> like sysmerge or syspatch. >> (snip) >> >> I have various stuff across different machines that is worth backing up >> in var/ like directories for nsd, unbound, www, etc. It all depends what >> you're using your machine for thus what you've put in those. >> >> Storage these days is cheap: my usual approach is to back up everything >> except stuff that I have hunted down via "du" and suchlike as being >> actually rather large and decided I can certainly live without. Better >> to back up a bit too much rather than too little. (Note that things like >> logs are rather compressible so even "du" may badly overstate them.) >> >> -- Mark >> >>
