Date: Wed, 15 Sep 2004 14:28:14 -0400 From: Charles Swiger <cswiger@mac.com> To: Curtis Vaughan <curtis@npc-usa.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: What to backup Message-ID: <01BE4FC8-0745-11D9-8490-003065ABFD92@mac.com> In-Reply-To: <CCD7FB7C-0743-11D9-A059-000393934006@npc-usa.com> References: <CCD7FB7C-0743-11D9-A059-000393934006@npc-usa.com>
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On Sep 15, 2004, at 2:19 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. The best answer is "backup everything". If you use a decent backup system which support differential or incremental backups, you will generate one large backup image (ie, a level-0 dump), and then future backups will take up a lot less space. If backing everything up requires too much space, backing up /etc, /home, and probably /var/mail is about the minimum one can do, but that depends on whether you have other stuff around that you care about. If you keep the output of "pkg_info" handy, you won't really need to backup /usr/local or /usr/ports; /usr/src, /boot, and /root can generally be recovered from a clean reinstall. -- -Chuck
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