What to exclude from Backups
I'm starting to backup a server running SuSE 9.2, just want to be sure about what to exclude, right now i'm excluding /tmp <-- Temporary data /mnt <-- Other data /proc <-- Dinamicaly generated data /sys <-- Dinamicaly generated data /dev/shm <-- not sure /srv/ftp <-- this will go to another tape Any comments?
On Thursday 21 April 2005 10:30 pm, Ciro Iriarte wrote:
I'm starting to backup a server running SuSE 9.2, just want to be sure about what to exclude, right now i'm excluding
/tmp <-- Temporary data /mnt <-- Other data /proc <-- Dinamicaly generated data /sys <-- Dinamicaly generated data /dev/shm <-- not sure /srv/ftp <-- this will go to another tape
Any comments?
I'd add /media to that list. Scott -- POPFile, the OpenSource EMail Classifier http://popfile.sourceforge.net/ Linux 2.6.11.4-20a-default x86_64
On 4/22/05, Scott Leighton
On Thursday 21 April 2005 10:30 pm, Ciro Iriarte wrote:
I'm starting to backup a server running SuSE 9.2, just want to be sure about what to exclude, right now i'm excluding
/tmp <-- Temporary data /mnt <-- Other data /proc <-- Dinamicaly generated data /sys <-- Dinamicaly generated data /dev/shm <-- not sure /srv/ftp <-- this will go to another tape
Any comments?
I'd add /media to that list.
Scott
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Thanks, forgot about that one (it's a server, so no much "media" mounted anyway :). Ciro
Ciro Iriarte wrote:
I'm starting to backup a server running SuSE 9.2, just want to be sure about what to exclude, right now i'm excluding
/tmp <-- Temporary data /mnt <-- Other data /proc <-- Dinamicaly generated data /sys <-- Dinamicaly generated data /dev/shm <-- not sure /srv/ftp <-- this will go to another tape
Any comments?
Add /dev
Ciro Iriarte wrote:
I'm starting to backup a server running SuSE 9.2, just want to be sure about what to exclude, right now i'm excluding
/tmp <-- Temporary data /mnt <-- Other data /proc <-- Dinamicaly generated data /sys <-- Dinamicaly generated data /dev/shm <-- not sure /srv/ftp <-- this will go to another tape
Any comments? I never back up my root file system. But I do back up some configuration files in /etc. I have a separate /home and /usr/local. /usr/src contains the sources for the kernel and some other sources you might have loaded, but /usr/local/src is a better place for some other
On Friday 22 April 2005 12:15 pm, Gary Gapinski wrote:
sources. I keep /home and /usr/local as a separate file system because they
are not affected when updating a distro or when dual booting between 2
distros.
The reason is that I can always rebuild my root file system. Most of the
files in the root file system do not change unless they are updated by an
online update.
The more variable stuff is:
/home - your users
/usr/local (or /local) - locally installed applications.
/var - this is where the log files and spool files are. Also it contains the
rpm database.
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Jerry Feldman
On 4/22/05, Gary Gapinski
Ciro Iriarte wrote:
I'm starting to backup a server running SuSE 9.2, just want to be sure about what to exclude, right now i'm excluding
/tmp <-- Temporary data /mnt <-- Other data /proc <-- Dinamicaly generated data /sys <-- Dinamicaly generated data /dev/shm <-- not sure /srv/ftp <-- this will go to another tape
Any comments?
Add
/dev
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Mmmm, don't think so. I need a full backup, so i can restore the whole system without reinstalling. Ciro
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