Re: recommended partitions to backup with dump

2022-08-24 Thread Geoff Steckel
On 8/24/22 13:28, Shadrock Uhuru wrote: hi everyone after losing a considerable amount of data that i had accumulated over the last year or so by trying to remove a directory called '~' that i had created by mistake in a sub directory of my home directory with rm -rf ~ which of course

Re: recommended partitions to backup with dump

2022-08-24 Thread Nick Holland
On 8/24/22 13:28, Shadrock Uhuru wrote: hi everyone after losing a considerable amount of data that i had accumulated over the last year or so by trying to remove a directory called '~' that i had created by mistake in a sub directory of my home directory with rm -rf ~ which of course started

Re: recommended partitions to backup with dump

2022-08-24 Thread Gökşin Akdeniz
Hello Shadrock 24.08.2022 20:28 tarihinde Shadrock Uhuru yazdı: 1 i want to do a fresh reinstall e.g. to move to a larger hard drive. 2 for a disaster recovery like what i experienced above. These arguments will require a "full backup". It means backup all partitions, so you can migrate

Re: recommended partitions to backup with dump

2022-08-24 Thread Luke A. Call
On 2022-08-24 12:51:16-0500, Allan Streib wrote: > On Wed, Aug 24, 2022, at 12:28, Shadrock Uhuru wrote: > > i already have /home /etc and /root set for backup, > > are there any other partitions i should bear in mind ? > > I always backup /var The above make sense to me also. Exploring man 7

Re: recommended partitions to backup with dump

2022-08-24 Thread Allan Streib
On Wed, Aug 24, 2022, at 12:28, Shadrock Uhuru wrote: > i already have /home /etc and /root set for backup, > are there any other partitions i should bear in mind ? I always backup /var Allan

recommended partitions to backup with dump

2022-08-24 Thread Shadrock Uhuru
hi everyone after losing a considerable amount of data that i had accumulated over the last year or so by trying to remove a directory called '~' that i had created by mistake in a sub directory of my home directory with rm -rf ~ which of course started to eat through my home directory with a