Date: Fri, 27 Feb 2004 17:49:24 -0500 From: Andrew Hall <halla3@corp.earthlink.net> To: Ryan Merrick <sandshrimp@comcast.net> Cc: "Benjamin P. Keating" <bkeating@teov.org> Subject: Re: directories to exclude for backups Message-ID: <1077922163.14678.72.camel@kuu.eng.atl.earthlink.net> In-Reply-To: <403FC724.3070407@comcast.net> References: <403EEEDF.3030500@teov.org> <403FC724.3070407@comcast.net>
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Ben, I personally believe the only data necessary to archive is your configuration files, and user data. The OS is easy to replace, real easy in FreeBSD. I consider the entire OS to be expendable because it is so easy to replace. Another option for software is amanda. Its in ports. Drew On Fri, 2004-02-27 at 17:39, Ryan Merrick wrote: > 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
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