Date: Tue, 18 Apr 2006 08:50:50 -0500 From: Derek Ragona <derek@computinginnovations.com> To: Oliver Iberien <oliver.iberien@charter.net>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Newbie question -- which files to back up? Message-ID: <6.0.0.22.2.20060418084558.02988840@mail.computinginnovations.com> In-Reply-To: <200604160053.05377.oliver.iberien@charter.net> References: <200604160053.05377.oliver.iberien@charter.net>
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The short answer is to backup the files you want to save. As a general rule, I suggest backing up: /etc /usr/local/etc /usr/local/www The last one assumes you have some website(s). If you are also worried about email, if you are using the standard sendmail, also backup: /var/mail I would suggest you create separate compressed tar volumes for your backups, then you can restore them individually if you need to. -Derek At 02:53 AM 4/16/2006, Oliver Iberien wrote: >I'm running FreeBSD 6.0 on a home machine and backing up to a DVD Burner, >probably using kdar, the dar archiver that comes with KDE. > >My question is : which system files to back up, along with my personal stuff? >I'm used to using linux distributions that do your system backups for you. >The capacity of the DVDs sets a practical limit on what I can reasonably back >up, so I need to pick and choose, basically to make recovery easier should >everything go south. Thanks! > >Oliver >_______________________________________________ >freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list >http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions >To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"
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