Grant skrev: > Do you back up anything other than /etc and /home on a standard system?
In a Gentoo system nothing is really standard, so I backup everything from / and then have a small exclude list with things like: /dev, /proc, /sys, /exports, /var/cache/squid, /srv/BackupPC. /var contains the most important files on a Gentoo system, if you loss the portage installed software information your in a heap of trouble. Goes both ways though backup of portages var information is less useful without backup of everything installed. I'm undecided about /usr/portage, I could save some time backing up /usr/portage/distfiles, but it is easily generated content. Minimal backup - if your willing to spend the hours on getting thing back up and running. /etc /root /home /usr/local /var It's possible to make an exclude list for /var as it contains both variable data thats important to save and dynamic data that will be generated again.
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