[wellylug] what to back up?

[Jonathan Harker]

nic wrote:
> Hi people
> I have quite a lot to do with a bunch of key Linux servers. I'm not 
> quite responsible for them, but I do get asked things like 'what should 
> we be backing up?'.
> And if it makes any difference to your suggestions, there is a _lot_ of 
> capacity on their tape system, so the odd 100 Mb here or there doesn't 
> matter too much
> All comments appreciated
> Nic C-L

How much does /pub + /var + /etc come to? /var/log may be useful to back 
up, and mysql puts things in /var/lib (although if you are replicating 
you theoretically don't need to back that up)