23 Dec
2016
23 Dec
'16
7:53 p.m.
On Fri, 23 Dec 2016 12:11:15 -0500 John Moniz via talk <talk@gtalug.org> wrote:
Hi everyone,
I'm backing up my system on a more regular basis and am trying to fine tune the files that I backup. I am looking for advice on what NOT to bother to backup on the /home directory.
John, I back up my entire /home directory every night. I also back up /etc, /root and /usr/local, but very much less frequently. My backup device is a 4TB hard drive. Periodically, I burn my /home backup to Blu-ray. If I have to recover something, I use my latest backup. I have written a backup script that uses tar. KISS. -- Howard Gibson hgibson@eol.ca howard.gibson@teledyne.com jhowardgibson@gmail.com http://home.eol.ca/~hgibson