On Wed, May 05, 2004 at 12:53:46AM -0400, Kaarthik Sivakumar wrote: > >>> "KK" == Kris Kennaway <kris_at_obsecurity.org> writes: > KK> You mean you don't back up the contents of your laptop that runs > KK> -CURRENT? You must like living dangerously and/or spending lots of > KK> time recovering from errors. > > 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? Only you can really answer that :) If you have files in other directories that are important, of course you should back them up. For example, not doing a full system backup will mean you have to spend a lot of time reinstalling from scratch, e.g. reinstalling all of your ports. Kris
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