[LAU] New workstation | DAW pc

rosea grammostola rosea.grammostola at gmail.com
Mon Sep 13 17:19:35 UTC 2010


On Mon, Sep 13, 2010 at 7:03 PM, Folderol <folderol at ukfsn.org> wrote:
> 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.

You have /music and /audio? Those are mounted harddrives?

\r


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