[GTALUG] What Not To Backup

[Howard Gibson]

On Fri, 23 Dec 2016 12:11:15 -0500
John Moniz via talk <talk at 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. 

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