On Fri, 17 Dec 1999, andreas p?lsson 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/ )
