From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Mar 5 14:14:18 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 09A8C1065670 for ; Wed, 5 Mar 2008 14:14:18 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from tfcheng@gmail.com) Received: from gv-out-0910.google.com (gv-out-0910.google.com [216.239.58.191]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 837F28FC18 for ; Wed, 5 Mar 2008 14:14:17 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from tfcheng@gmail.com) Received: by gv-out-0910.google.com with SMTP id n40so1662971gve.39 for ; Wed, 05 Mar 2008 06:14:16 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; bh=rHbhz4Rq+I4PQv/ny7MYdBboh/6clJJ5tBquliYTltw=; b=e6sxRWMh92jShv9yWFVcjtnzNLZDtDOcM1fVxcimo6GQQeD565zIxRtJlQg4gh9TXFYDcxk9E6/uTWeduDtetwgV7W534EM6fNlAa+NpEi1gAjo0Lse1YJw6vnYYrCBhpqy8LmXRQEMSOeiAk7uhuIbmi6AVCYHX7IYBgKhPw7g= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=OrLFjW0P7WllkhRyO0VQgz0CY3WrwJZdJDuU5LQ9qqxbG1GTk94UeAVKcVDZfe5CCErPxX8l2dl8b7FtxXxT/2FMSXpHVSISG5YLpxeZWPoKroRTj4hBFtVhR2yWw0NdZ7sA7WTXFUGPT5YdgrLJrPh+HH/YNxmR0vIBnn+N8eE= Received: by 10.142.177.7 with SMTP id z7mr786324wfe.0.1204726454306; Wed, 05 Mar 2008 06:14:14 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.143.196.2 with HTTP; Wed, 5 Mar 2008 06:14:14 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: Date: Wed, 5 Mar 2008 09:14:14 -0500 From: "Tsu-Fan Cheng" To: Chris In-Reply-To: <20080305080949.68403c86@thudpucker.makeworld.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <20080305080949.68403c86@thudpucker.makeworld.com> Cc: FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: install/upgrade question 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: Wed, 05 Mar 2008 14:14:18 -0000 yeah, I understand. backup is crucial. But I have >90% full in a 200G drive, so it's a pain in the rear end. But I wonder if I can "choose" what contents (or directories) to be installed so I can keep the rest intact. just a thought.... On Wed, Mar 5, 2008 at 9:09 AM, Chris wrote: > > On Wed, 5 Mar 2008 08:59:45 -0500 > "Tsu-Fan Cheng" wrote: > > > Hi, > > I think this Q is pretty basic, but I just want to make sure. I was > > considering if upgrading from 6.3 to 7.0 and something goes wrong, and > > I need to do a fresh install. Can I only change/overwrite the /etc > > /usr, etc but leave /home intact?? thank you!! > > Why not simply tar the dirs you want archived and save them off to some > other media? This way you are certainly covered almost to the point of > a hard disk failure. > > With the price of blank CD's, DVD's, and thumb drives - this seems to be > a reasonable thing to consider. > > But to answer your question (somewhat) if I were either that unsure of > what was going to happen (or paranoid) then I would most certainly have > a backup (tarball) of the "important" stuff before I tried anything. > > Simply not invoking backups (of any type or any time) is silly. > > Just my 1/2 cent (applied current rate of inflation). > > -- > Best regards, > Chris > > Fingerprint: 4201 94F9 E77F 9357 F3F3 56B7 8D20 ECC7 1AB5 FEF8 >