From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Jan 26 14:57:33 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4393137B401 for ; Sun, 26 Jan 2003 14:57:32 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail1.acecape.com (mail1.acecape.com [66.114.74.12]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A458643ED8 for ; Sun, 26 Jan 2003 14:57:31 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from lists@natserv.com) Received: from p65-147.acedsl.com (p65-147.acedsl.com [66.114.65.147]) by mail1.acecape.com (8.12.2/8.12.2) with ESMTP id h0QMvLJ7029562 for ; Sun, 26 Jan 2003 17:57:24 -0500 Date: Sun, 26 Jan 2003 18:08:40 -0500 (EST) From: Francisco Reyes X-X-Sender: fran@zoraida.natserv.net To: FreeBSD Questions List Subject: Which files and directories to backup? Message-ID: <20030126180330.L17637-100000@zoraida.natserv.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG What files or directories shoud I ignore when doing a tar backup? So far my include list is: /etc /usr/home /usr/local/etc /usr/src/sys/i386/conf /var/log /root /.profile /.cshrc And my exclude list is /root/.netscape/cache /etc/fstab /etc/mtree /etc/isdn /etc/uucp /usr/local/etc/codepages/ Planning to create a separate tar just for /usr/local How about /var? should I backup all of it? Among the thing I already now which will need to be excluded is the postgreSQL "/base" directory. Other than that not aware of any directory in /usr/local/ that will need to be excluded. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message