From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Feb 2 20:43:06 2005 Return-Path: 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 4205216A4CE for ; Wed, 2 Feb 2005 20:43:06 +0000 (GMT) Received: from pi.codefab.com (pi.codefab.com [199.103.21.227]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D5AFD43D46 for ; Wed, 2 Feb 2005 20:43:05 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from cswiger@mac.com) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pi.codefab.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5252F5DFE; Wed, 2 Feb 2005 15:43:05 -0500 (EST) Received: from pi.codefab.com ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (pi.codefab.com [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 84857-04; Wed, 2 Feb 2005 15:43:03 -0500 (EST) Received: from [192.168.1.3] (pool-68-161-50-112.ny325.east.verizon.net [68.161.50.112]) by pi.codefab.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 955C15DC5; Wed, 2 Feb 2005 15:43:02 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <42013B3C.5020407@mac.com> Date: Wed, 02 Feb 2005 15:42:36 -0500 From: Chuck Swiger Organization: The Courts of Chaos User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041217 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Dick Hoogendijk References: <4200EE07.2070700@comcast.net> <20050202153016.GA66813@falcon.midgard.homeip.net> <20050202154923.GA82005@lothlorien.nagual.st> In-Reply-To: <20050202154923.GA82005@lothlorien.nagual.st> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.90.0.0 X-Enigmail-Supports: pgp-inline, pgp-mime Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at codefab.com cc: freebsd-questions Subject: Re: upgrading FreeBSD X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 02 Feb 2005 20:43:06 -0000 Dick Hoogendijk wrote: [ ... ] > You're so right ;-) > Main problem (at least to me) is almost everytime *what* is important > data and what is not? I don't mean my personal stuff (that's the easy > part), but more, which control files and (fine) tunings on the running > system do I not want to loose? /etc and /usr/local/etc are very > important data dirs, but what others are too? You should backup all of your data, and stop worrying about missing something, rather than backup only some data and hope not to find out later that you didn't backup something you needed. -- -Chuck