Date: Fri, 27 Feb 2004 14:39:32 -0800 From: Ryan Merrick <sandshrimp@comcast.net> To: "Benjamin P. Keating" <bkeating@teov.org> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: directories to exclude for backups Message-ID: <403FC724.3070407@comcast.net> 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 > Hello, I use bacula to disk and tape. http://www.bacula.org/ /usr/ports/sysutils/bacula -- -Ryan Merrick sandshrimp@comcast.net
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