From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Jan 26 15: 4:48 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 0B67C37B401 for ; Sun, 26 Jan 2003 15:04:47 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail.bellavista.cz (mail.bellavista.cz [62.168.44.50]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 691DB43E4A for ; Sun, 26 Jan 2003 15:04:46 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from neuhauser@bellavista.cz) Received: from freepuppy.bellavista.cz (freepuppy.bellavista.cz [10.0.0.10]) by mail.bellavista.cz (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6891F479; Mon, 27 Jan 2003 00:04:45 +0100 (CET) Received: by freepuppy.bellavista.cz (Postfix, from userid 1001) id D62D92FDAB2; Mon, 27 Jan 2003 00:04:44 +0100 (CET) Date: Mon, 27 Jan 2003 00:04:44 +0100 From: Roman Neuhauser To: Francisco Reyes Cc: freebsd-questions Subject: Re: Which files and directories to backup? Message-ID: <20030126230444.GB735@freepuppy.bellavista.cz> Mail-Followup-To: Francisco Reyes , freebsd-questions References: <20030126180330.L17637-100000@zoraida.natserv.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20030126180330.L17637-100000@zoraida.natserv.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.1i 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 # lists@natserv.com / 2003-01-26 18:08:40 -0500: > What files or directories shoud I ignore when doing a tar backup? files you have customized in any way. it depends on what software you run. there's no definitive answer. > And my exclude list is > /root/.netscape/cache man, you run X as root? you use Netscape 4.x? why do you use FreeBSD then? you would be fine with Windows 95. :) > How about /var? > should I backup all of it? again, depends on what you have in there. -- FreeBSD 4.7-STABLE 12:00AM up 25 mins, 4 users, load averages: 0.03, 0.06, 0.03 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message