+1 Have a full snapshot of your system, otherwise restore will be a nightmare. Do it with another tool, rsnapshot is mostly useful for data.
Il 13 giu 2017 11:05 AM, "Mark Carroll" <m...@ixod.org> ha scritto: > On 13 Jun 2017, G. wrote: > > > Hello! > > Im trying to take daily and weekly backups of my system rsnapshot. > (snip) > > Im not sure if there is anything in var that i should consider backup > > like sysmerge or syspatch. > (snip) > > I have various stuff across different machines that is worth backing up > in var/ like directories for nsd, unbound, www, etc. It all depends what > you're using your machine for thus what you've put in those. > > Storage these days is cheap: my usual approach is to back up everything > except stuff that I have hunted down via "du" and suchlike as being > actually rather large and decided I can certainly live without. Better > to back up a bit too much rather than too little. (Note that things like > logs are rather compressible so even "du" may badly overstate them.) > > -- Mark > >
