Hi Adrian, thanks for your advice, I was actually already thinking of
switching to a full backup strategy; unfortunately that would not solve
tho size issue, which at this point is becoming quite puzzling :-)
Cheers,
Alberto
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On 5 Apr 2013, at 12:53, Adrian Reyer wrote:
> Hi Alberto,
>
> On Thu, Apr 04, 2013 at 09:03:51AM +0200, Alberto Caporro wrote:
>> I backed up our mail server, which is hosted in a virtual machine
>> with two virtual disks sized at 20G and 200G respectively. I'm only
>> backing up relevant files (/etc, /root and /opt) and measured on the
>> server itself, the total size amounts to slightly more than 56G.
>
> Please rethink that. Unless you took further steps, if your box
> crashes
> you won't even know which packages have been installed, your /etc will
> be mostly useless. And if you actually know which packages you had
> installed, you would need to reconfigure them with debconf as the
> information from /var is missing.
> I strongly recommend to always backup the whole server. The saved few
> 100MB system data is never worth the time you have to spend resolving
> all these configuration issues.
>
> Regards,
> Adrian
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