On Tue, May 03, 2005 at 09:32:10AM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I have a large usb harddisk with a 60GB freebsd slice that I want to use > to backup the FreeBSD 5.4 installation on my laptop once in a while. > I think that tar is the right tool for this purpuse.
You could also use dump, combined with bzip2. If you want to use tar, use gtar with the --one-file-system option. > Now I ask: > What directories do *** NOT *** require to be backed up? > I know this is the case of /tmp > but what about /dev? and /var? The /dev/ directory is filled automagically. You don't have to back it up. I would make a backup of /var, since things like your ports database and mail queue reside there. In short; back up /, /usr and /var, and /home if you have that on a seperate slice. Roland -- R.F. Smith /"\ ASCII Ribbon Campaign r s m i t h @ x s 4 a l l . n l \ / No HTML/RTF in e-mail http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/ X No Word docs in e-mail public key: http://www.keyserver.net / \ Respect for open standards
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