Maureen L Thomas <[email protected]> writes: > I have everything I need including a third HDD. There are so many backup > programs I have to wonder which one will work for my needs. I > just need to make a backup of my home directory so if I do something stupid > like play with /var and have no idea how to fix it. Is there > something else I need to back up besides /home? I appreciate your help.
I use bup. It's a fairly simple command line tool. It can generate error correction data for my backups too which I thought is great but as you say, there are many I back up /boot /etc /home /root usr/local /var/lib/dpkg /var/lib/apt/extended_states on my main desktop. Probably different directories on my other computers. I can't remember why /var/lib/dpkg and /var/lib/apt/extended_states though. /boot is a little suspect too but I do have a custom Grub theme in there but that's the only thing worth backing up in /boot. I also save partition tables with sfdisk and Debian package selections with dpkg --get-selections "*", just in case. My desktop especially has a fair number of partitions on the boot drive with three operating system. So, good to keep a copy of that.
