Backups and all that

[Joshua Boyd]

Kaarthik Sivakumar wrote:

>>>>"KK" == Kris Kennaway <kris at obsecurity.org> writes:
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>KK> On Wed, May 05, 2004 at 12:53:46AM -0400, Kaarthik Sivakumar wrote:
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>>>Actually I have been meaning to ask: what exactly do you backup?
>>>Everybody and every doc says "backup the important stuff", but what
>>>exactly in the system is important? Currently I backup the following:
>>>
>>>/boot/loader.conf
>>>/etc
>>>/usr/X11R6/etc
>>>/usr/local/etc
>>>/usr/local/share/config
>>>/var/db/pkg
>>>/home/<user>
>>>/root
>>>
>>>Is this sufficient?
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>>>
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>KK> Only you can really answer that :) If you have files in other
>KK> directories that are important, of course you should back them up.
>KK> For example, not doing a full system backup will mean you have to
>KK> spend a lot of time reinstalling from scratch, e.g. reinstalling all
>KK> of your ports.
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>Currently I am backing up all configuration information, since I spent
>too much time reading too many docs to set up my machine the way I
>want it. I cant go back and find the same docs and reread them if
>anything should happen to the machine. Infact I did lose data when I
>was running -stable but then I decided to switch to -current instead,
>so I had to reread all kinds of docs and redo my entire configuration
>all over again since -current and -stable currently dont do most of
>the things in the same way. My backup was therefore made moot. 
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>I havent otherwise lost any data and so I dont quite know what else is
>important. I just wanted to know what others were doing with respect
>to backups; atleast those who are taking backups.
>
>kaarthik
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After reading the threads I too have decided to *gasp* backup my laptop 
... not backing up /home, but everything else ...

sudo dump 0Lauf - / | bzip2 -c > 05052004-inspiron.bz2