Date: Mon, 28 May 2007 12:17:49 -0400 From: Robert Huff <roberthuff@rcn.com> To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: How to find disk slice layout Message-ID: <18011.173.677084.310998@jerusalem.litteratus.org> In-Reply-To: <20070528155109.GA10386@slackbox.xs4all.nl> References: <4532A9C5-9AA1-42B6-BC29-1FCB98EBC054@goldmark.org> <20070528145326.GC24417@gizmo.acns.msu.edu> <2C5ECA04-E6CD-48BC-B2DA-2B8153EB489D@goldmark.org> <20070528155109.GA10386@slackbox.xs4all.nl>
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Roland Smith writes: > > > Note you do not back up the swap partition which is normally 'b' > > > and don't do anything to the 'c' partition which is there only to > > > describe the slice to the system and is not a true partition. > > > You can probably skip backing up your /tmp also. > > > > What about /dev and /var? > > I'd backup /var, because it's usually small. And it also contains > important things like your port options, and the database of > installed packages. While everyone needs to e aware of their own circumstances ... most of /var _can_ be rebuilt with varying degrees of effort. One exception I'm aware of: I believe mysql defaults to /var/mysql. (On the other hand - if that data is important, you already have a separate backup arrangement. Right?) Robert Huff
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