Date: Tue, 18 Apr 2006 08:50:50 -0500 From: Derek Ragona <derek@computinginnovations.com> To: Oliver Iberien <oliver.iberien@charter.net>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Newbie question -- which files to back up? Message-ID: <6.0.0.22.2.20060418084558.02988840@mail.computinginnovations.com> In-Reply-To: <200604160053.05377.oliver.iberien@charter.net> References: <200604160053.05377.oliver.iberien@charter.net>
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The short answer is to backup the files you want to save. As a general
rule, I suggest backing up:
/etc
/usr/local/etc
/usr/local/www
The last one assumes you have some website(s).
If you are also worried about email, if you are using the standard
sendmail, also backup:
/var/mail
I would suggest you create separate compressed tar volumes for your
backups, then you can restore them individually if you need to.
-Derek
At 02:53 AM 4/16/2006, Oliver Iberien wrote:
>I'm running FreeBSD 6.0 on a home machine and backing up to a DVD Burner,
>probably using kdar, the dar archiver that comes with KDE.
>
>My question is : which system files to back up, along with my personal stuff?
>I'm used to using linux distributions that do your system backups for you.
>The capacity of the DVDs sets a practical limit on what I can reasonably back
>up, so I need to pick and choose, basically to make recovery easier should
>everything go south. Thanks!
>
>Oliver
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