Re: [rdiff-backup-users] Backup Strategy

[Maik Schreiber]

> Is my current strategy sufficient?

Probably not, unless you don't care to re-install your machine(s) in case you 
broke the operating system.

> Should I be backing up other directories?

see above

> Should I just back up everything from / on down?

Definitely not. I somehow recall that reading some files in /proc can be 
dangerous. In any case, there's no need to backup that one, since it's 
"created" by the kernel.

Here's my list of excluded directories:

/boot           - I'd recompile the kernel from scratch
/dev            - I use devfs; back it up when you don't
/lost+found     - ext2/3-specific
/mnt            - external mounted stuff
/proc
/root           - there should be nothing in there anyway
/tmp
/usr/portage    - Gentoo-specific
/usr/tmp
/var/lock       - run-time lock files
/var/log        - you may want to backup these
/var/run        - run-time state data
/var/state      - same
/var/tmp

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