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  • From: "Andraž 'ruskie' Levstik" <ruskie AT mages.ath.cx>
  • To: <sm-discuss AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [SM-Discuss] Files needed to restore from back-up
  • Date: Sun, 26 Aug 2007 20:05:45 +0200

On 19:31:10 2007-08-26 "Bearcat M. Sandor" <sourcemage AT feline-soul.com>
wrote:
> Folks.
>
> I'm looking to back-up my files to dvd-rw. It's gonna take a lot, but
> tape drives (and the tapes) are just too frikin expensive.
>
> I'm thinking that i could just backup /var/log/sorcery/activity and
> /etc. Then if disaster ever struck, i could install sourcemage from
> disc, copy over the activity file and etc and then do a "sorcery
> --rebuild" do i have that right?
>
>

Here's the basic stuff I backup on every box:
#backup-manager vars
BM_TARBALL_TARGETS[0]="/etc"
BM_TARBALL_TARGETS[1]="/var/log/sorcery"
BM_TARBALL_TARGETS[2]="/var/state/sorcery"

That's the minimal for a completly unattended setup I belive...

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