Backing up programs

From: Francisco Reyes (lists_at_natserv.com)
Date: 12/31/03

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    With every HD problem I loose less and less data. On my last episode I
    lost only the current day's worth of data (backup at night). However I
    realised that I also need to backup programs installed on the machine. It
    takes a long time to rebuild all packages (I had a list of ports I had
    installed).

    How do others backup their programs?
    I am undecided between trying to backup the entire /usr/local and making
    packages of my critical ports and burning that to CDs.

    I also took care of all system files, but I realized that backing up all
    of /etc wasn't so helpfull if I didn't know which files I used. I also, as
    of last crash, am going to backup /usr/src since restoring all of /etc
    only makes sense with matching sources.

    The one thing I have against trying to backup all of /usr/local is that
    something like PostgreSQL may cause the backup problems whereas the
    package solution will be a one time deal and will not affect production.

    The other thing I learnt that needs to be backed up is the /usr/ports
    directory.

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