Re: Backups and all that

From: Kaarthik Sivakumar (kaarthik_at_comcast.net)
Date: 05/05/04

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    To: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
Date: Wed, 05 May 2004 01:24:13 -0400

    >>> "KK" == Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> writes:
    KK> On Wed, May 05, 2004 at 12:53:46AM -0400, Kaarthik Sivakumar wrote:
    >> 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?

    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.

    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.

    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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