Newbie question -- which files to back up?

[Eric Schuele]

Oliver Iberien wrote:
> I'm running FreeBSD 6.0 on a home machine and backing up to a DVD Burner, 
> probably using kdar, the dar archiver that comes with KDE. 
> 
> My question is : which system files to back up, along with my personal stuff? 
> I'm used to using linux distributions that do your system backups for you. 
> The capacity of the DVDs sets a practical limit on what I can reasonably back 
> up, so I need to pick and choose, basically to make recovery easier should 
> everything go south. Thanks!

In addition to the:

	/etc
	/usr/local/etc
	/home
	/var/db

that others posted, I find the following useful too:

	/usr/src/sys/i386/conf		<- kernel configs	
	/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xdm		<- I customize xdm on occasion
	/boot/device.hints
	/boot/loader.conf

HTH
> 
> Oliver
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Regards,
Eric