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I’m setting up rsnapshot to backup a production LAMP server. These are the directories that currently are going to be backed up.
- /home
- /etc
- /usr/local
- /root
- /var
What directories can I exclude from /var? Anything else that should be backed up/excluded?
Side: Is there a problem backing up to /var/backups?
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You can probably skip /var/run, but that directory holds so little data, it’s probably not worth skipping.
Sure, you can back up to /var/backup (or whatever location you wish, really). Just be careful exclude your /var/backup from your backup sets otherwise you’ll get into a recursive backup situation, which isn’t good.
Additionally, I assume that /var/backup is on local disk? If so, make sure to consider how you’ll get the contents of /var/backup off of local disk to a remote location somehow. Needless to say, those backups won’t do you a bit of good on local disk if you have a hard drive failure or filesystem corruption.
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