Date: Fri, 21 Aug 2009 15:50:32 -0500 From: Jeffrey Goldberg <jeffrey@goldmark.org> To: John Almberg <jalmberg@identry.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: What should be backed up? Message-ID: <5A8F63C4-7244-410A-B115-9681709855B5@goldmark.org> In-Reply-To: <9F9B85A9-CC10-4793-B38D-4F1E1929BAF6@identry.com> References: <9F9B85A9-CC10-4793-B38D-4F1E1929BAF6@identry.com>
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On Aug 21, 2009, at 2:33 PM, John Almberg wrote: > I am currently using rsnapshot to back up these directories on a > FreeBSD 7.2 webserver: > > /etc > /usr/home > /usr/local > /var/cron > > These directories contain all the data and config files that I > use... I think... > > Question: am I missing anything crucial? My general advice is to back up everything and then explicitly excluding those things that you know that you don't need. Here is my exclude list from my rsnapshot.conf exclude /var/log exclude /var/tmp exclude /usr/obj exclude /usr/ports/distfiles exclude /usr/local/squid Also I backup by file system, so I'm already excluding /tmp It is far to easy to forget something that needs to be backed up. Cheers, -j
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