behrouz khosravi: > On Mon, Aug 25, 2014 at 3:57 AM, Volker Armin Hemmann > <volkerar...@googlemail.com> wrote: > >> and now you know why you should have added --buildpkg to your default >> emerge options. > > Yeah, I am happy that I did it. I really don't like to compile > chromium or libreoffice again! >
Those methods are all not safe if you happen to randomly delete system folders by accident. The only relatively safe methods are rsync to a remote (or similar) or file system level backups like zfs has.