Rasmus Wiman wrote: > Thank you, but that was not what I was asking for. I know of several > ways to back up an entire file system. The thing is that I don't see > the need to back up things that could just as easily be rebuilt. > Feels like a waste of diskspace to me since I don't need 99,99% > uptime. What I'd like to do is backing up only things that can't be > rebuilt and all information I need to rebuild the system. > > Any ideas?
Have you considered saving "History" once you have a working system to be able to recreate what you did to get there? That, and perhaps the list of modules and the .config file from /usr/src/linux pretty well define a from scratch build. You might also like to record the partition information and the /etc/fstab file. In Harmony's Way, and In A Chord, Tom :-}) Thomas A. Condon Barbershop Bass Singer Registered Linux User #154358 A Jester Unemployed -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
