From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Feb 26 16:29:44 2004 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 173B616A4CE for ; Thu, 26 Feb 2004 16:29:44 -0800 (PST) Received: from clunix.cl.msu.edu (clunix.cl.msu.edu [35.9.2.10]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 99B2343D3F for ; Thu, 26 Feb 2004 16:29:43 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jerrymc@clunix.cl.msu.edu) Received: (from jerrymc@localhost) by clunix.cl.msu.edu (8.11.7p1+Sun/8.11.7) id i1R0Tfh11508; Thu, 26 Feb 2004 19:29:41 -0500 (EST) From: Jerry McAllister Message-Id: <200402270029.i1R0Tfh11508@clunix.cl.msu.edu> To: bkeating@teov.org (Benjamin P. Keating) Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2004 19:29:40 -0500 (EST) In-Reply-To: <403EEEDF.3030500@teov.org> from "Benjamin P. Keating" at Feb 26, 2004 11:16:47 PM X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.5 PL2] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: directories to exclude for backups 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: Fri, 27 Feb 2004 00:29:44 -0000 > > 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" >