Minimalistic Backup setup

[vrm-ol]

Hi all;


at the moment, i'am thinking about which directoirs must be backed up on tape, which should be backed up and which part of my gentoo-box can easily be recovered, downloading and compiling all again ...

The must's i've collected so far:

/home
/usr/local
/etc --- OK, these were easy to figure out
/var/spool/mail --- to be able to recover mails
/var/log --- to be able to find out, what happened before the crash
/var/cache/edb/world --- to remember what was installed
some items from /var/lib/news (activefile, newsgroupsfile)
the local Kernel-config --- /usr/src/linux/.config
in my case /opt/ltsp/.../ltsp.conf [1] and everything else manually installed or changed in /opt/ltsp

What else is a must?
Any ideas about the should's

TIA, vrm
[1] someone shoud move this to /etc and symlinking it to the above place ...

[nephros]

/var/db/pkg is also a nice candidate! I am not sure what the info in there is used for, but I think it is required for portage to function.

I also think some versions of apache use /var/www/htdocs instead of /home/httpd, and qmail, should you use it, puts everything in /var/qmail, not /var/spool/

You COULD also backup /usr/portage/distfiles, just to save bandwidth, and /usr/portage/packages in case you built any binary tarballs.

[Souperman]

I also back up /root because I tend to leave a few things lying around in there that I wouldn't want to lose. You'll also probably want /var/spool/cron/crontabs. Not sure if that path is different depending on which cron you emerged, I use vcron.
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