Re: [LAU] New workstation | DAW pc

On Mon, 13 Sep 2010 19:19:35 +0200
rosea grammostola <rosea.grammostola@email-addr-hidden> wrote:

> On Mon, Sep 13, 2010 at 7:03 PM, Folderol <folderol@email-addr-hidden> wrote:
> > On Mon, 13 Sep 2010 07:43:29 -0700
> > Mark Knecht <markknecht@email-addr-hidden> wrote:
> >
> >> On Mon, Sep 13, 2010 at 6:58 AM, rosea grammostola
> >> <rosea.grammostola@email-addr-hidden> 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

Hmmm. I seem to be a bit slow responding!

/audio is on its own hard drive /music is a separate partition on the
main drive.

/music and /audio are backed up regularly and taken off site. The rest I
consider replaceable.

-- 
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.
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