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To: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
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Subject: Backups and all that (was: missing  libncurses.so.5 and other lib*)
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>>> "KK" == Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> writes:
KK> You mean you don't back up the contents of your laptop that runs
KK> -CURRENT? You must like living dangerously and/or spending lots of
KK> time recovering from errors.

Actually I have been meaning to ask: what exactly do you backup?
Everybody and every doc says "backup the important stuff", but what
exactly in the system is important? Currently I backup the following:

/boot/loader.conf
/etc
/usr/X11R6/etc
/usr/local/etc
/usr/local/share/config
/var/db/pkg
/home/<user>
/root

Is this sufficient?

kaarthik