Re: [gentoo-dev] backups: remove Portage cruft?
On Monday 12 June 2006 19:28, Alec Warner wrote: Joerg Plate wrote: Do make sure you back up the base /var/cache/edb/ Why? Anything in /var/cache doesn't need to be in a backup, because it can be generated when necessary (in theory...) in theory, yes; in practice, this needs to be a yes too in practice there are a couple of files you may not want to destroy (mtimedb, counter) those files are very helpful sure, but portage needs to be able to sanely recover if they go bye bye -mike pgpaF7y79APCR.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-dev] backups: remove Portage cruft?
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 signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
[gentoo-dev] backups: remove Portage cruft?
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? Thanks! CC appreciated :). -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-dev] backups: remove Portage cruft?
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 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? Thanks! CC appreciated :). anything in /usr/portage can be regenerated by syncing. /var/tmp can be dumped too. That should be most of the space portage takes - -- === Mike Doty kingtaco -at- gentoo.org Gentoo/AMD64 Strategic Lead Gentoo Developer Relations Gentoo Recruitment Lead Gentoo Infrastructure GPG: 0094 7F06 913E 78D6 F1BB 06BA D0AD D125 A797 C7A7 === -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFEjdGU0K3RJaeXx6cRAjoXAKDJW9YZ5gax+Vrb/y7kiCr2VomgfwCfSe89 0QkLcHEXzZ9FChQe1/Vk8HM= =8YZx -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-dev] backups: remove Portage cruft?
On Mon, Jun 12, 2006 at 03:41:56PM -0500, Mike Doty wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 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? Thanks! CC appreciated :). anything in /usr/portage can be regenerated by syncing. /var/tmp can be dumped too. That should be most of the space portage takes You should also be able to ditch /var/cache/edb/dep/ safely. Do make sure you back up the base /var/cache/edb/ and /var/lib/portage/ -- Robin Hugh Johnson E-Mail : [EMAIL PROTECTED] GnuPG FP : 11AC BA4F 4778 E3F6 E4ED F38E B27B 944E 3488 4E85 pgpSV5aJN7sxd.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-dev] backups: remove Portage cruft?
Do make sure you back up the base /var/cache/edb/ Why? Anything in /var/cache doesn't need to be in a backup, because it can be generated when necessary (in theory...) -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-dev] backups: remove Portage cruft?
On Mon, 12 Jun 2006 14:06:01 -0700 Robin H. Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Jun 12, 2006 at 03:41:56PM -0500, Mike Doty wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 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? Thanks! CC appreciated :). anything in /usr/portage can be regenerated by syncing. /var/tmp can be dumped too. That should be most of the space portage takes You should also be able to ditch /var/cache/edb/dep/ safely. Do make sure you back up the base /var/cache/edb/ and /var/lib/portage/ Don't forget the most important thing: /var/db/pkg. Other things worth saving are /var/log/emerge.log (serveral tools use this) and of course any portage related files in /etc. Marius -- Public Key at http://www.genone.de/info/gpg-key.pub In the beginning, there was nothing. And God said, 'Let there be Light.' And there was still nothing, but you could see a bit better. signature.asc Description: PGP signature
