Date: Wed, 15 Sep 2004 13:12:18 -0600 From: Gary Aitken <garya@dreamchaser.org> To: Scott Gerhardt <scott@g-it.ca>, Curtis Vaughan <curtis@npc-usa.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: What to backup Message-ID: <41489412.4000908@dreamchaser.org> In-Reply-To: <7DD3A492-0744-11D9-881F-000393801C60@g-it.ca> References: <CCD7FB7C-0743-11D9-A059-000393934006@npc-usa.com> <7DD3A492-0744-11D9-881F-000393801C60@g-it.ca>
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Scott Gerhardt wrote: > > On Sep 15, 2004, at 12:19 PM, Curtis Vaughan wrote: > >> I have a question about what exactly I should backup on my 5.3 FreeBSD >> Server. So far I have chosen the following directories for full >> backup. But perhaps some is overkill. >> >> /etc >> /boot >> /home >> /var/log >> /usr/ports >> /root >> /usr/local >> /usr/src ... > You don't really need to backup /usr/ports and /usr/src since they can > be easily rebuilt by cvsup'ing the latest. Not backing these up will > probably save you about 500MB. You probably do want to back up /usr/src/sys/xxx/conf, where xxx is i386 or whatever for your sys, since that is where your kernel config for custom kernels normally resides. Gary
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