Hello. Lately I have been thinking alot about backups on Unix-systems. I don't have any mission-critical data or system, so "tar" and "gzip" are enough for me.
But I was thinking, what is a good backup-strategy when I run Debian? 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. 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? ./Andreas
