[GTALUG] Portable Backup Drive Compatible with Linux (and Recommended Backup Software)

[Brad Fonseca]

On 01/02/17 11:51 AM, Mauro Souza via talk wrote:
> Good software is not the problem. Good procedures are the point. GitLab
> had 5 different backup procedures, and were offline this morning when
> they could not recover lost data... 
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This Stack Exchange thread seems to be useful:
http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/1067/what-directories-do-i-need-to-back-up

"Under most circumstances you want to backup these:

    /home/ for user data and configuration
    /etc/ for system wide configuration files
    /var/ contains a mix of directories you usually want to backup and
those you don't want to backup. See below for a more detailed explanation.

Some more directories to consider are:

    /usr/local/ hand-installed packages (i.e. not installed through apt)
are installed here. If you have packages installed here, you may want to
backup the whole directory, so you don't have to reinstall them. If the
packages themselves aren't important to you, it should be enough to
backup /usr/local/etc/ and /usr/local/src/
    /opt/ if you didn't store anything here, you don't need to back it
up. If you stored something here, you are in the best position to
decide, if you want to back it up.
    /srv/ much like /opt/, but is by convention more likely to contain
data you actually want to backup.
    /root/ stores configuration for the root user. If that is important
to you, you should back it up.

...."

Brad

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