First, a belated thanks to Richard for his reply.
And, a follow-up question (or two): Since /var contains some runtime
information, is it safe to restore it to a new system? In particular
/var/run looks as though it contains current running PID information. Would
the old PID's in /var/run cause a problem on a newly restored system? My
main interest in /var is the log files. Besides /var/log is there anything
in /var that might be essential to restoring the system to its former state?
Thanks again,
Steve Barrett
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Richard Adams [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Friday, August 11, 2000 12:08 AM
> To: Barrett, Steven P.
> Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: What to backup?
>
> 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
>
> --
> Regards Richard
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> http://people.zeelandnet.nl/pa3gcu/
>
>
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