Re: Backup/Restore strategies on Debian
On Fri, 17 Dec 1999, andreas pålsson wrote:
> I don't have any mission-critical data or system, so "tar" and "gzip"
> are enough for me.
afio is similar to tar, but gzips individual files instead of the whole
lot, so if you get a corruption it'll more than likely affect only the one
file rather than making your whole archive useless. I'd recommend
flexbackup, a perl script you can find on freshmeat.net, for organising
your backups.
> I find it useless to "tar ... gzip" whole "/" and it's subdirectories,
> since everything in "/usr/*" does exist on the debian system and can be
> easily downloaded again.
And you'll catch /proc which will bloat your archive :)
> What I can see as important is the "/etc"- and "/home"-directories which
> should be stored.
>
> Everything else can be restored easily if I got the Debian CD's or a
> LAN-connection.
>
> Or am I wrong?
That's about what I make it though if you compile stuff up yourself or
otherwise install software outside of Debian's package system, you'll
almost certainly want to back up /usr/local too. I'm not sure where you'd
go to back up the list of installed packages so that you could
automagically restore them, though.
--
Matthew ( http://www.soup-kitchen.demon.co.uk/ )
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