On 28/05/07, Robert Huff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Roland Smith writes:> > > Note you do not back up the swap partition which is normally 'b' > > > and don't do anything to the 'c' partition which is there only to > > > describe the slice to the system and is not a true partition. > > > You can probably skip backing up your /tmp also. > > > > What about /dev and /var? > > I'd backup /var, because it's usually small. And it also contains > important things like your port options, and the database of > installed packages. While everyone needs to e aware of their own circumstances ... most of /var _can_ be rebuilt with varying degrees of effort.
Thanks to a dying disk, I lost /var/db/pkg/, and it is a fairly major pain to recreate. In essence, you have to reinstall everything under /usr/local, though portupgrade was reasonably helpful in that regard. 95% of /var/log/ can be safely lost, but ask which 5% to keep and you'll get a shrug. -- -- _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
