Backup Script for Mac OS X experiences?

[Ryan Schmidt]

On Mar 20, 2013, at 21:30, Lawrence Velázquez wrote:

> On Mar 20, 2013, at 10:02 PM, Ian Wadham wrote:
> 
>> I wonder if I should be excluding parts of /opt/local … ?  Macports has a rather high
>> turnover of files when you install or upgrade and I think most could be recreated easily
>> enough after a disk crash.
> 
> I *think* /opt/local/etc and /opt/local/var are the only directories containing data that would not be recreated by a reinstall. Don't quote me on that, though.

That's up to each individual port. For example, apache2 has its configuration files in /opt/local/apache2/conf.