[wellylug] what to back up?

[Kingsley G. Morse Jr.]

For what it's worth, I back up everything except

    /tmp
    /var/tmp
    /var/cache/apt/archives/
    /proc
    /sys

Thanks,
Kingsley

On 08/24/07 16:41, Jonathan Harker wrote:
> 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)
> 
> 
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