[LAU] New workstation | DAW pc

[Folderol]

On Mon, 13 Sep 2010 07:43:29 -0700
Mark Knecht <markknecht at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Mon, Sep 13, 2010 at 6:58 AM, rosea grammostola
> <rosea.grammostola at gmail.com> wrote:
> <SNIP>
> >
> > Do you guys backup only your /home folder and personal files/
> > documents, or the root ( / ) system also?
> >
> > \r
> 
> I back up /home, /audio, /var/lib/portage/world and /etc. On Gentoo
> pretty much everything I need to recreate my setup is in /etc so
> that's pretty easy. The world file on Gentoo is just a text list of
> the apps I want installed. Portage can create a system from nothing
> but that. However I need /etc/portage to get any machine specific
> settings. All the other things like network configuration, etc., is
> kept in /etc on my machines.
> 
> If you run mysql then back up databases as Arnold suggests.
> 
> Hope this helps,
> Mark

On my general purpose machine just /home

On my DAW /audio and /music (I keep 'construction' files separate from
finished tracks).

I also have printed step-by-step instructions on how to get my machines
back to my standard configuration.

-- 
Will J Godfrey
http://www.musically.me.uk
Say you have a poem and I have a tune.
Exchange them and we can both have a poem, a tune, and a song.