directories to exclude for backups

[Ryan Merrick]

Benjamin P. Keating wrote:
> My Plan is to make a gzipped tarball of the entire machine, excluding 
> directories that are not necessary. If however, there is a more sound 
> solution then tarballing a machine for a backup, Im all ears. I know 
> rsync is a possibility, but i'd like to have just a solid, non-active 
> archive copy of machines.
> 
> EXCLUDE DIRECTORIES
> ----------------------------------------------
> /proc
> /dev
> /tmp
> /usr/ports/
> /var/tmp/
> 
> What else would be safe to exclude?
> 
> Thanks,
> -Ben
> 
Hello,

I use bacula to disk and tape.
http://www.bacula.org/
/usr/ports/sysutils/bacula

-- 
-Ryan Merrick
sandshrimp at comcast.net