On Tue, 28 Jan 2003 11:25:57 -0500 (EST)
Francisco Reyes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Tue, 28 Jan 2003, Brett Harris wrote:
The best way that I've found to back my machine's configs up, is to
create a directory such as /etc/config , *move* all my important
configuration files to it
On Tue, 28 Jan 2003, Brett Harris wrote:
The best way that I've found to back my machine's configs up, is to
create a directory such as /etc/config , *move* all my important
configuration files to it (firewall, syslogd, rc.conf etc -
basically anything i'd want to keep for a new machine),
and
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On Sun, 26 Jan 2003, Mike Meyer wrote:
It's a bad idea to exclude fstab.
Why? At one point I had it included and it actually clobered a working one
and just caused much more headaches.
Because fstab tells you which disks are
On Mon, 27 Jan 2003, Mike Meyer wrote:
Other files won't create as much headaches as fstab if copied over by
mistake.
Oh yeah? What about rc.conf? Your firewall config, if any? password?
Seems like they *all* create nasty headaches if copied over by
mistake. The solution to that problem
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On Mon, 27 Jan 2003, Mike Meyer wrote:
Other files won't create as much headaches as fstab if copied over by
mistake.
Oh yeah? What about rc.conf? Your firewall config, if any? password?
Seems like they *all* create
At 8:16 PM -0500 1/26/03, Francisco Reyes wrote:
On Sun, 26 Jan 2003, Mike Meyer wrote:
It's a bad idea to exclude fstab.
Why? At one point I had it included and it actually clobered a working one
and just caused much more headaches.
You should still back it up; you just need to be more
On Mon, 27 Jan 2003, Paul Hoffman wrote:
before I do a major upgrade. I then shove the backup offsite via ftp.
I have not been sending the files out, but working on that.
First will encryp the files with gpg (GNU privacy) and then will use scp
to send the files out. I don't have FTP enabled on
At 4:18 PM -0500 1/27/03, Francisco Reyes wrote:
On Mon, 27 Jan 2003, Paul Hoffman wrote:
before I do a major upgrade. I then shove the backup offsite via ftp.
I have not been sending the files out, but working on that.
First will encryp the files with gpg (GNU privacy) and then will use scp
On Mon, 27 Jan 2003, Paul Hoffman wrote:
gzip is more universally known that bzip2, so using it means that you
are more likely to be able to recover your data in an emergency, such
as on a non-BSD system.
I have several FreeBSD machines that I administer in a couple of locations
so I just
Hi,
The best way that I've found to back my machine's configs up, is to create a directory
such as /etc/config , *move* all my important configuration files to it (firewall,
syslogd, rc.conf etc - basically anything i'd want to keep for a new machine), and
then symlink them to their proper
# [EMAIL PROTECTED] / 2003-01-26 18:08:40 -0500:
What files or directories shoud I ignore when doing a tar backup?
files you have customized in any way. it depends on what software
you run. there's no definitive answer.
And my exclude list is
/root/.netscape/cache
man, you run X
In [EMAIL PROTECTED], Francisco Reyes
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What files or directories shoud I ignore when doing a tar backup?
So far my include list is:
/etc
/usr/home
/usr/local/etc
/usr/src/sys/i386/conf
/var/log
/root
/.profile
/.cshrc
And my exclude list is
On Sun, 26 Jan 2003, Mike Meyer wrote:
It's a bad idea to exclude fstab.
Why? At one point I had it included and it actually clobered a working one
and just caused much more headaches.
I am not planning on doing a full backup/restore so if the machine totally
dies I can just get back up from
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