Re: A pipe dream? (a.k.a. File Backups)

["Steve Lamb" <morpheus@rpglink.com>]

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>From: "Steve Lamb" <morpheus@rpglink.com>
>To: "Harrison, Shawn" <shawn_harrison@tyndale.com>
>Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1999 13:15:40 -0800
>Reply-To: "Steve Lamb" <morpheus@rpglink.com>

On Tue, 26 Jan 1999 15:14:56 -0500, Harrison, Shawn wrote:

>Much of what is "customized" or specific in the system is found in the /etc
>directory, and then all of your data files should be in the /home directory.
>So if you back up those two trees, you'll be mostly there, I would think.

    This is not entirely true.  It ignores things like, ohhhh, just an
example here...  /var/majordom and /usr/lib/listar.  Both are mailing lists
that keep data in those directories that people might want.  

    For backing up and keeping all the "custom" stuff on a machine it is
easier to specify exlcudes to a catchall than trying to include everything.  

    Directories that can, for the most part, be excluded from a
comprehensive backup:

/dev
/bin
/sbin
/usr/bin
/usr/sbin
/usr/X11R?

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