I'm trying to do a simple system backup (with cpio or tar), and I was looking for what I need to back up and found this question. The answer was basically, "it depends on what you're running on your machine".
If there is a disk failure, I want to easily get my server running again without having to reinstall a lot of things. I'm using a web server and a fair amount of 3rd party programs. I'm thinking I'll back up everything except the absolutely unnecessary.
So are there any directories that I shouldn't backup because it would be a waste of time and disk space?
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– User1231424214112 Dec 21 '11 at 19:21etckeeper
to revision control/etc
,equivs-control
to createdeb
files to install stuff). – ctrl-alt-delor Oct 24 '16 at 16:15