Kimball Larsen wrote:
I have heard (and shared) differing opinions about what bits of a linux box really should be backed up in order to resurrect a system after something like catastrophic hard drive failure.
As much as you can afford to back up. If you need to cut corners, skipping /usr is your safest bet (but there may be stuff you want to backup in /usr, depending on your distro). I'd back up everything under /var except some conscious exceptions, e.g. if /var/log is huge and you don't care about backing up logs, exclude it.
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