clone ubuntu installation

Matthew Gillen me-5yx05kfkO/aqeI1yJSURBw at public.gmane.org
Sat Jun 13 13:22:48 EDT 2009


Laura Conrad wrote:
> I always save /etc, but I wouldn't have thought of saving the whole of
> /var.  Doesn't that get you a lot of junk?  (I know, disk space is cheap
> these days.)

Sort of.  /var is a lot of logs and stuff, but it's also the mail spools
and where your mysql databases live (and bind/named stuff if you run a
local bind server, etc).

Matt





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