From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Apr 18 14:30:14 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EBB9C16A410 for ; Tue, 18 Apr 2006 14:30:14 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from e.schuele@computer.org) Received: from sccrmhc11.comcast.net (sccrmhc11.comcast.net [204.127.200.81]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D6F3543D72 for ; Tue, 18 Apr 2006 14:29:59 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from e.schuele@computer.org) Received: from [208.206.151.59] (unknown[208.206.151.59]) by comcast.net (sccrmhc11) with ESMTP id <2006041814295801100einure>; Tue, 18 Apr 2006 14:29:58 +0000 Message-ID: <4444F7E5.2010508@computer.org> Date: Tue, 18 Apr 2006 09:29:57 -0500 From: Eric Schuele User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5 (X11/20060402) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Oliver Iberien References: <200604160053.05377.oliver.iberien@charter.net> In-Reply-To: <200604160053.05377.oliver.iberien@charter.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Newbie question -- which files to back up? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 18 Apr 2006 14:30:15 -0000 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! In addition to the: /etc /usr/local/etc /home /var/db that others posted, I find the following useful too: /usr/src/sys/i386/conf <- kernel configs /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xdm <- I customize xdm on occasion /boot/device.hints /boot/loader.conf HTH > > Oliver > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > -- Regards, Eric