#Tinkerer if i promise to be super

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velvet jackal
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The answer is ... everything you care about

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What those are depends on your setup, and what you care about.

stable peak
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im just not sure in linux where most of that is, other than of course the home directory

velvet jackal
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Me, everything that matters goes under /data, so pretty much all of that gets backed up

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Outside of that is just the OS and OS config (/etc and bits of /var) - and for me the OS is disposable since everything is in Docker

stable peak
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ok so for me it sounds like its probably going to be

/home
/etc
/var

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you mentioned "bits of /var". Could you expand on that a little more for me?

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also in my home directory are my vbox drives, which i guess i should exclude from the backup

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how do i find where my config files are located for docker

velvet jackal
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/var/db
/var/lib
``` those are the two key ones
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The Docker config is wherever you wrote your Compose files

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Mine are in /data/docker

stable peak
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i use portainer so i write my compose files in there

velvet jackal
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No idea about that, but it should be findable via Google

stable peak
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ok thank you for the advice

velvet jackal
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Hasn't changed much beyond not really using Pi's any more

stable peak
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Im comfortable with the HA backups side of things. Have tested the backups and restores (stored off disk) and they are working.

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but you are right with what you said earlier, i need to backup my host machine

velvet jackal
stable peak
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Ok so i feel a little more at ease. All my important docker stuff is actually pointing to a mapped drive on my 6 bay NAS which in turn is backed up to AWS