From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Apr 18 13:54:56 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 09EA716A410 for ; Tue, 18 Apr 2006 13:54:56 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from derek@computinginnovations.com) Received: from betty.computinginnovations.com (dsl081-142-072.chi1.dsl.speakeasy.net [64.81.142.72]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6098A43D6A for ; Tue, 18 Apr 2006 13:54:55 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from derek@computinginnovations.com) Received: from p17.computinginnovations.com (dhcp-10-20-30-100.computinginnovations.com [10.20.30.100]) (authenticated bits=0) by betty.computinginnovations.com (8.13.5/8.12.11) with ESMTP id k3IDoxCP003576; Tue, 18 Apr 2006 08:50:59 -0500 (CDT) Message-Id: <6.0.0.22.2.20060418084558.02988840@mail.computinginnovations.com> X-Sender: derek@mail.computinginnovations.com X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 6.0.0.22 Date: Tue, 18 Apr 2006 08:50:50 -0500 To: Oliver Iberien , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org From: Derek Ragona In-Reply-To: <200604160053.05377.oliver.iberien@charter.net> References: <200604160053.05377.oliver.iberien@charter.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Cc: Subject: Re: Newbie question -- which files to back up? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 18 Apr 2006 13:54:56 -0000 The short answer is to backup the files you want to save. As a general rule, I suggest backing up: /etc /usr/local/etc /usr/local/www The last one assumes you have some website(s). If you are also worried about email, if you are using the standard sendmail, also backup: /var/mail I would suggest you create separate compressed tar volumes for your backups, then you can restore them individually if you need to. -Derek At 02:53 AM 4/16/2006, Oliver Iberien wrote: >I'm running FreeBSD 6.0 on a home machine and backing up to a DVD Burner, >probably using kdar, the dar archiver that comes with KDE. > >My question is : which system files to back up, along with my personal stuff? >I'm used to using linux distributions that do your system backups for you. >The capacity of the DVDs sets a practical limit on what I can reasonably back >up, so I need to pick and choose, basically to make recovery easier should >everything go south. Thanks! > >Oliver >_______________________________________________ >freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list >http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions >To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"