Hi Rajnish
What I would do is backup /etc, /home, /usr and /var. That way if you
have a system crash, you can just install a bare minimum copy of RH onto
the HDD and restore those directories, reboot, and it should be back to
normal.
HTH,
Gonzalo.
On Wed, 2002-04-10 at 10:14, Tiwari, Rajnish wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> Having installed RH recently, I am thinking of a strategy
> to backup important files onto another drive and/or CD ('cos
> it is a good thing to and also 'cos it is a case of "_twice
> bitten, forever shy of seagate disk drives").
>
> I would like to know what are the important files in RH and
> where they are kept (/etc/.., ??). As all user data goes into
> /users/, so that is easily backed up. What other directories,
> config files that I should backup ?
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
> Regards,
> Rajnish
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