From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Aug 24 07:21:06 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 90AAC106568D for ; Mon, 24 Aug 2009 07:21:06 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from norgaard@locolomo.org) Received: from mail.locolomo.org (97.pool85-48-194.static.orange.es [85.48.194.97]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4747E8FC19 for ; Mon, 24 Aug 2009 07:21:06 +0000 (UTC) Received: from beta.1-16-172-dyn.locolomo.org (beta.1-16-172-dyn.locolomo.org [172.16.1.127]) by mail.locolomo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id C17471C1A67; Mon, 24 Aug 2009 09:21:04 +0200 (CEST) Message-ID: <4A923F5F.8060209@locolomo.org> Date: Mon, 24 Aug 2009 09:21:03 +0200 From: Erik Norgaard User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.23 (Macintosh/20090812) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Jeffrey Goldberg References: <20090824001441.93892B7C4@kev.msw.wpafb.af.mil> <97E0413B-E738-4731-BBEC-5A044E8C3D06@goldmark.org> In-Reply-To: <97E0413B-E738-4731-BBEC-5A044E8C3D06@goldmark.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Cc: vogelke+unix@pobox.com, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: What should be backed 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: Mon, 24 Aug 2009 07:21:06 -0000 Jeffrey Goldberg wrote: > This is one of the several reasons that I use rsync (via rsnapshot). > At each increment, it backs up the minimum that is need. With the > cost of having a complete backup which duplicates what you would find > in a reinstall, you have a complete system. For binaries, I find it much safer/easier to reinstall, then you're sure all dependencies are installed correctly as well as the pkg database is updated correctly. For the rest of the files, having a complete backup I'll have to trace through what differs from the distributed/default configuration etc. Doing that from the start is much easier. And, the default configuration comes with the source, so no need to backup that. Of course this is also because when the recovery stragety is to reinstall, I'll likely upgrade while at it. So I can't assume blindly old default configuration files will work without modifications. BR, Erik -- Erik Nørgaard Ph: +34.666334818/+34.915211157 http://www.locolomo.org