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blk_jack
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 Posted: Tue Aug 27, 2002 10:22 am Post subject: Minimal backups? |
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Essentially I'd just like to have my world file backed up (so if I have to restore I can just restore from a fresh gentoo install and emerge world once I've restored my original world file), and keep my configurations and home directories.
So in a nutshell can I just back up /var/ (distfiles excluded), /etc/, /home/ and be able to restore to a very similar distribution? |
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blk_jack
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God damn! I can't believe none of you people back up your system! 
Seriously though, doesn't it make more sense to just back up configs and user-specific files then restore from a make world on a fresh install? Am I not sane in that way of thinking?
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pjp
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I don't... but I also have nothing I can't live without. I also don't have a reasonable medium to back up data to. I'm not swaping CDs to back up 20G of music. I have read some threads about backups, though I'm not certain if they covered 'minimal'.
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