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 > > -- > This message has been scanned for viruses and > dangerous content, and is believed to be clean. > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >
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