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Date:      Wed, 15 Sep 2004 12:24:33 -0600
From:      Scott Gerhardt <scott@g-it.ca>
To:        Curtis Vaughan <curtis@npc-usa.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: What to backup
Message-ID:  <7DD3A492-0744-11D9-881F-000393801C60@g-it.ca>
In-Reply-To: <CCD7FB7C-0743-11D9-A059-000393934006@npc-usa.com>
References:  <CCD7FB7C-0743-11D9-A059-000393934006@npc-usa.com>

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On Sep 15, 2004, at 12:19 PM, Curtis Vaughan wrote:

> I have a question about what exactly I should backup on my 5.3 FreeBSD 
> Server. So far I have chosen the following directories for full 
> backup.  But perhaps some is overkill.
>
> /etc
> /boot
> /home
> /var/log
> /usr/ports
> /root
> /usr/local
> /usr/src
>
> Curtis
>
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You don't really need to backup /usr/ports and /usr/src since they can 
be easily rebuilt by cvsup'ing the latest.  Not backing these up will 
probably save you about 500MB.


Thanks,

--
Scott A. Gerhardt, P.Geo.
Gerhardt Information Technologies



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