From owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Tue May 4 22:22:19 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 30FC016A4CE for ; Tue, 4 May 2004 22:22:19 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.radford.edu (mail.radford.edu [137.45.126.5]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5E56943D2D for ; Tue, 4 May 2004 22:22:18 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from boydjd@adelphia.net) Received: from virus-mail2.radford.edu (virus-mail2.radford.edu [137.45.126.11])i455MEa9018001 for ; Wed, 5 May 2004 01:22:14 -0400 (EDT) Received: FROM mail-in.radford.edu BY virus-mail2.radford.edu ; Wed May 05 01:22:36 2004 -0400 Received: from adelphia.net (dhcp-69-48.radford.edu [137.45.69.48]) i455MBZG009286; Wed, 5 May 2004 01:22:11 -0400 Message-ID: <409879F9.9050701@adelphia.net> Date: Wed, 05 May 2004 01:22:01 -0400 From: Joshua Boyd User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.5 (X11/20040421) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Kaarthik Sivakumar References: <27069625$1083545780409598b48f99f4.24297031@config22.schlund.de> <20040503013317.GA70955@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> <4095A795.8070108@adelphia.net> <4095AF71.6080906@obsecurity.org> <86k6zro4o5.fsf_-_@comcast.net> <20040505045829.GA50931@xor.obsecurity.org> <86fzafo39e.fsf@comcast.net> In-Reply-To: <86fzafo39e.fsf@comcast.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org cc: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org cc: Kris Kennaway Subject: Re: Backups and all that X-BeenThere: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Gathering place for new users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 05 May 2004 05:22:19 -0000 Kaarthik Sivakumar wrote: >>>>"KK" == Kris Kennaway writes: >>>> >>>> >KK> On Wed, May 05, 2004 at 12:53:46AM -0400, Kaarthik Sivakumar wrote: > > >>>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/ >>>/root >>> >>>Is this sufficient? >>> >>> > >KK> Only you can really answer that :) If you have files in other >KK> directories that are important, of course you should back them up. >KK> For example, not doing a full system backup will mean you have to >KK> spend a lot of time reinstalling from scratch, e.g. reinstalling all >KK> of your ports. > >Currently I am backing up all configuration information, since I spent >too much time reading too many docs to set up my machine the way I >want it. I cant go back and find the same docs and reread them if >anything should happen to the machine. Infact I did lose data when I >was running -stable but then I decided to switch to -current instead, >so I had to reread all kinds of docs and redo my entire configuration >all over again since -current and -stable currently dont do most of >the things in the same way. My backup was therefore made moot. > >I havent otherwise lost any data and so I dont quite know what else is >important. I just wanted to know what others were doing with respect >to backups; atleast those who are taking backups. > >kaarthik > >_______________________________________________ >freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list >http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current >To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-current-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > > > After reading the threads I too have decided to *gasp* backup my laptop ... not backing up /home, but everything else ... sudo dump 0Lauf - / | bzip2 -c > 05052004-inspiron.bz2