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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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