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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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