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

[Judah Richardson]

On Mon, Apr 19, 2021 at 1:02 AM Joshua M. Clulow <josh at sysmgr.org> wrote:

> 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 hope to become this advanced someday ;)

>
> 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
>