[OpenIndiana-discuss] I'd like to backup my entire OpenIndiana installation using Restic. Which directories should I exclude?

[Joshua M. Clulow]

On Sun, 18 Apr 2021 at 22:30, Judah Richardson
<judahrichardson at gmail.com> wrote:
> Thanks so much. Sounds reasonable to add /mnt to that list too, I assume? The only thing that would be there (on my end) is shares from other machines and perhaps removable media I'm uninterested in backing up.

You're welcome!  As for /mnt, you're definitely in the vicinity of the
fuzzy line between OS-level decisions and local site policy-level
decisions.

I mostly try to keep generated data in a separate tree, e.g.,
rpool/home or perhaps rpool/data, these days.  It makes it a bit
easier to use an include list rather than exclude list approach to
backups.  I then mostly just assume that I can rebuild the actual
environment from the automation or packages I used in the first place.

I'm curious to hear how Restic goes!  It seems interesting, but is
sufficiently complex that I had trouble convincing myself I'd be able
to easily verify that it had backed everything up without an extensive
ongoing restore testing programme.


Cheers.

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Joshua M. Clulow
http://blog.sysmgr.org