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Date:      Thu, 26 Feb 2004 19:29:40 -0500 (EST)
From:      Jerry McAllister <jerrymc@clunix.cl.msu.edu>
To:        bkeating@teov.org (Benjamin P. Keating)
Cc:        questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: directories to exclude for backups
Message-ID:  <200402270029.i1R0Tfh11508@clunix.cl.msu.edu>
In-Reply-To: <403EEEDF.3030500@teov.org> from "Benjamin P. Keating" at Feb 26, 2004 11:16:47 PM

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> My Plan is to make a gzipped tarball of the entire machine, excluding 
> directories that are not necessary. If however, there is a more sound 
> solution then tarballing a machine for a backup, Im all ears. I know 
> rsync is a possibility, but i'd like to have just a solid, non-active 
> archive copy of machines.

Unless you need to be portable across vendor OS I would be inclined
to prefer dump to tar.

////jerry

> 
> EXCLUDE DIRECTORIES
> ----------------------------------------------
> /proc
> /dev
> /tmp
> /usr/ports/
> /var/tmp/
> 
> What else would be safe to exclude?
> 
> Thanks,
> -Ben
> 
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