02-12-2009, 09:55 AM

The content's of my mac book pro looks like so. Is everything important ? I mean i'm figuring out a backup procedure at the mo with rsync and want to know what to exclude if anything.

.DS_Store
.Spotlight-V100
.SymAVQSFile
.Trashes
.com.apple.timemachine.supported
.fseventsd
.hotfiles.btree
.vol
Applications
Desktop DB
Desktop DF
Developer
Library
Network
System
User Guides And Information -> /Library/Documentation/User Guides and Information.localized
Users
Volumes
bin
cores
dev
etc -> private/etc
home
mach_kernel
mach_kernel.ctfsys
net
opt
private
sbin
tmp -> private/tmp
usr
var -> private/var

any advice as to what i really need to back up and what I could exclude?

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thanks

02-12-2009, 10:02 AM

It depends on what your disaster recovery goals are. If your hard drive were to fail, would you need to make your entire system immediately available? If so, then use a program like Time Machine or SuperDuper to do a full backup of everything. If it's just that you'd like to safeguard your Documents/Data/Music, etc, then you can just backup your home folder (/Users/<your username).