Well as far as /var goes i decided to take a closer look because i am thinking running aide for system integrity check. So this my rsnapshot.conf
I backup the following files backup / localhost/ (Im not sure if i need anything else other than / for backup ) # backup /altroot/ localhost/ # backup /bin/ localhost/ # backup /etc/ localhost/ # backup /home/ localhost/ # backup /root/ localhost/ # backup /sbin localhost/ # backup /usr/ localhost/ # backup /var/ localhost/ And exclude exclude /var/authpf exclude /var/cache exclude /var/crash exclude /var/cron exclude /var/run exclude /var/sasl exclude /var/spool exclude /var/tmp exclude /dev/ exclude /mnt/usb/ exclude /mnt/cdrom/ exclude /tmp/ exclude /home/.snapshot/ On 06/14/17 00:22, Stuart Henderson wrote: > On 2017-06-13, Paolo Aglialoro <paol...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Have a full snapshot of your system, otherwise restore will be a nightmare. > > Opinions vary. I couldn't care less about backing up things which I can > just reinstall, I just need to know how to get back to that state easily. > There are advantages to a script or config management recipe over a backup > of those things: it also works for building on a new OS version, or the > same one with fresh binaries in case you don't trust the ones you have > for some reason. > >> Do it with another tool, rsnapshot is mostly useful for data. > > Any working backup that you understand is better than no backup.. > Especially if it runs automatically. rsnapshot is one of many things > which will work (and you can't really argue with the ease of restore!). > >
