On 04/02/15 09:25, Brad Alexander wrote:
> Hey,
>
> Looking for best practice here. I have converted my workstation from 
> Debian to PCBSD. So I'm looking for ideas on what to back up. Since 
> the system and the userspace are separate, would it be prudent to back 
> up /home and /usr/local (plus the usual suspects like /etc)?
>
> Any suggestions?

My personal preference is to backup *everything*. Anything less than 
this, and you will eventually have the situation where the weird config 
file wasn't stored in the standard place, and you can't restore it, or 
someone wrote a custom script and saved it to /usr/bin instead of 
/usr/local/bin etc.... The size of the OS files is generally relatively 
small, compress well, and change rarely, therefore minimal cost to 
backup those files, even over a remote/slow connection.

Regards,
Adam
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