directories to exclude for backups

[Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P.]

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
>
I'd wonder if a "more sound solution" is either
dump(8) or cpio(1L).  That said, I do use tar(1)
for /www....

Kevin Kinsey
DaleCo, S.P.