<html><head></head><body><div>Short answer: Backup everything you can't reinstall from distro disks. That usually means /home, /usr/local, /etc, /root, parts of /var (log files - maybe, spool with email - probably, run folder - nope, ), maybe /opt if you use it.</div><div><br></div><div>Long answer is more questions about how you plan to recover from a disaster and what type of disaster is planned to be recovered from.</div><div><br></div><div>On Mon, 2016-02-29 at 12:12 -0500, Derek Atkins wrote:</div><blockquote type="cite"><pre>Hi,
I'm working on configuring some backups via rdiff-backup, and I've got
some style questions. My main question is: do you back up /bin,
/usr/bin, /lib, /usr/lib, and other "system" directories? Or do you
only backup /root, /etc, /var, and select areas, and keep a package list
of the installed packages?
If you do backup the system directories (/bin, etc), what's the best way
to restore the system? I'm thinking disaster recovery, not "oops, I
deleted a file and need it back"?
Thanks for your guidance,
-derek
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