Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2004 23:54:09 -0600 From: "Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P." <kdk@daleco.biz> To: "Benjamin P. Keating" <bkeating@teov.org> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: directories to exclude for backups Message-ID: <403EDB81.8060306@daleco.biz> In-Reply-To: <403EEEDF.3030500@teov.org> References: <403EEEDF.3030500@teov.org>
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Benjamin P. Keating wrote: > 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. > > EXCLUDE DIRECTORIES > ---------------------------------------------- > /proc > /dev > /tmp > /usr/ports/ > /var/tmp/ > > What else would be safe to exclude? > > Thanks, > -Ben > I'd wonder if a "more sound solution" is either dump(8) or cpio(1L). That said, I do use tar(1) for /www.... Kevin Kinsey DaleCo, S.P.
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