Date: Tue, 3 May 2005 17:53:39 +0200 From: Roland Smith <rsmith@xs4all.nl> To: FreeBSD <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Cc: v.demartino2@virgilio.it Subject: Re: backup with tar: Which dirs Message-ID: <20050503155338.GA56956@slackbox.xs4all.nl> In-Reply-To: <427197A300008993@ims3e.cp.tin.it> References: <427197A300008993@ims3e.cp.tin.it>
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--UugvWAfsgieZRqgk Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Tue, May 03, 2005 at 09:32:10AM +0200, v.demartino2@virgilio.it wrote: > I have a large usb harddisk with a 60GB freebsd slice that I want to use > to backup the FreeBSD 5.4 installation on my laptop once in a while. > I think that tar is the right tool for this purpuse. You could also use dump, combined with bzip2. If you want to use tar, use gtar with the --one-file-system option. > Now I ask: > What directories do *** NOT *** require to be backed up? > I know this is the case of /tmp=20 > but what about /dev? and /var? The /dev/ directory is filled automagically. You don't have to back it up. I would make a backup of /var, since things like your ports database and mail queue reside there. In short; back up /, /usr and /var, and /home if you have that on a seperate slice. Roland --=20 R.F. Smith /"\ ASCII Ribbon Campaign r s m i t h @ x s 4 a l l . n l \ / No HTML/RTF in e-mail http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/ X No Word docs in e-mail public key: http://www.keyserver.net / \ Respect for open standards --UugvWAfsgieZRqgk Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFCd56CEnfvsMMhpyURAmVMAJ4zriPiyAuQXZhBdbOCM1w2JZF9MwCfdKgp iGDGmBpzVzKBTwJ2DBopcLA= =UFAy -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --UugvWAfsgieZRqgk--
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