On Sunday 17 April 2005 11:37 am, Paul Cartwright wrote:
On Sun April 17 2005 1:49 pm, Scott Leighton wrote:
I use two different ones, dar and backup2l . Just recently started using dar and may switch to it entirely, just haven't decided. As for what I mean by backing up the entire system, just what I said, dar creates a backup of everything on the system for me. It's on your SuSE CD/DVD, check it out. I have it dump the backup slices to a networked Buffalo Linkstation. Every once and a while I burn DVDs of the slices.
would that be kdar ?? I have that installed.. I've been using rsync for /etc/ and /home, maybe I'll add /usr/local to that AND do a complete backup.. nothing like a little redundancy ;)
Kdar uses dar, it just wraps it in a nice KDE GUI. Under the hood, it is using dar. I actually did use Kdar to initially create the backup script, but I haven't used it since. I just modified the Kdar generated script so I could run it in a cron job easily.
usr/local ?? help me out here, I have been backing up /etc and /home, what do I need from /usr/local ? ?
Well behaved applications that you may install off the net or elsewhere will generally install themselves to /usr/local so by preserving /usr/local, you will not have to reinstall all those applications after a fresh install.
I see mozilla under /usr/local but mozilla-Firefox got installed into my home directory... weird.
Yes, it can be confusing. Some things install to /opt, some to /usr/local and some to your /home directory. I haven't quite figured out the rationale for all those cases, the LSB has a FHS that covers the subject http://www.pathname.com/fhs/ but I never could Grok the subtle distinction between /opt and /usr/local Scott -- POPFile, the OpenSource EMail Classifier http://popfile.sourceforge.net/ Linux 2.6.11.4-20a-default x86_64