Date: Tue, 4 May 2004 21:58:29 -0700 From: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> To: Kaarthik Sivakumar <kaarthik@comcast.net> Cc: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> Subject: Re: Backups and all that (was: missing libncurses.so.5 and other lib*) Message-ID: <20040505045829.GA50931@xor.obsecurity.org> In-Reply-To: <86k6zro4o5.fsf_-_@comcast.net> References: <27069625$1083545780409598b48f99f4.24297031@config22.schlund.de> <20040503013317.GA70955@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> <4095A795.8070108@adelphia.net> <4095AF71.6080906@obsecurity.org> <86k6zro4o5.fsf_-_@comcast.net>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] On Wed, May 05, 2004 at 12:53:46AM -0400, Kaarthik Sivakumar wrote: > >>> "KK" == Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> writes: > KK> You mean you don't back up the contents of your laptop that runs > KK> -CURRENT? You must like living dangerously and/or spending lots of > KK> time recovering from errors. > > Actually I have been meaning to ask: what exactly do you backup? > Everybody and every doc says "backup the important stuff", but what > exactly in the system is important? Currently I backup the following: > > /boot/loader.conf > /etc > /usr/X11R6/etc > /usr/local/etc > /usr/local/share/config > /var/db/pkg > /home/<user> > /root > > Is this sufficient? Only you can really answer that :) If you have files in other directories that are important, of course you should back them up. For example, not doing a full system backup will mean you have to spend a lot of time reinstalling from scratch, e.g. reinstalling all of your ports. Kris [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFAmHR0Wry0BWjoQKURAs2RAJwNKyA2ng96303VR37uLUjlNvz97wCeLq3d zAwXtF7udJSAwtJhgq3n5Xk= =Gtor -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----help
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