On Thu, 10 Aug 2000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about, What to backup?:
> today=`date '+%Y%m%d'`
> tar -cvzPf /backups/linux/linux-ix_$today.tz /etc /home /root
> /backups/routers /tmp /var
> chmod 600 /backups/linux/linux-ix*
> ftp -din my.hp3000.system < .backup-hp_ftp
>
> The basic idea is to re-install Linux and then untar the above archive to
> get the system back to a functional state with my user specific stuff
> intact. Question is - Is the aboce list of directories reasonable or should
> I exclude some of these or include others?
>
> I've also looked at freshmeat.net under console/backup and see that there
> are many backup utilities availabe. Would I be better off with one of these
> -- any recommendations?
One, many user space programs which are installed after the distribution,
may have been installed in /usr/local/src and thier binarys in either
/usr/local/bin or /usr/local/sbin same goes for extra lib's they could also
be installed in /usr/local/lib.
>
> Thanks,
> Steve Barrett
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Regards Richard
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