Backups and all that (was: missing libncurses.so.5 and other lib*)

[Kris Kennaway]

On Wed, May 05, 2004 at 12:53:46AM -0400, Kaarthik Sivakumar wrote:
> >>> "KK" == Kris Kennaway <kris at obsecurity.org> writes:
> KK> You mean you don't back up the contents of your laptop that runs
> KK> -CURRENT? You must like living dangerously and/or spending lots of
> KK> time recovering from errors.
> 
> Actually I have been meaning to ask: what exactly do you backup?
> Everybody and every doc says "backup the important stuff", but what
> exactly in the system is important? Currently I backup the following:
> 
> /boot/loader.conf
> /etc
> /usr/X11R6/etc
> /usr/local/etc
> /usr/local/share/config
> /var/db/pkg
> /home/<user>
> /root
> 
> Is this sufficient?

Only you can really answer that :) If you have files in other
directories that are important, of course you should back them up.
For example, not doing a full system backup will mean you have to
spend a lot of time reinstalling from scratch, e.g. reinstalling all
of your ports.

Kris
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