Date: Tue, 18 Apr 2006 09:29:57 -0500 From: Eric Schuele <e.schuele@computer.org> To: Oliver Iberien <oliver.iberien@charter.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Newbie question -- which files to back up? Message-ID: <4444F7E5.2010508@computer.org> In-Reply-To: <200604160053.05377.oliver.iberien@charter.net> References: <200604160053.05377.oliver.iberien@charter.net>
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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! In addition to the: /etc /usr/local/etc /home /var/db that others posted, I find the following useful too: /usr/src/sys/i386/conf <- kernel configs /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xdm <- I customize xdm on occasion /boot/device.hints /boot/loader.conf HTH > > 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" > -- Regards, Eric
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