I would just backup your /home/ directory, and maybe /etc if you have done a lot of config on the thing, (like a webserver etc..). I personally have my /home dir mounted by nfs (thinking about coda), and stored on my home server. If any machine other than the server goes down it's just a matter of:
Format, and then, re-install, Do da, do da.
I just tell rh7.2 to use nis as i am installing it, and then give it the
mount details for nfs, and run ximian gnome on it (I also mount
/var/cache/redcarpet with nfs). Ta da, im done.
I then just backup the /etc and /home dir on the server. I have had the
server go down only once on a (noisy) Seagate 30Gb 7200RPM. Got a 40Gb
WD, reinstalled RH7.2 copied over the backups (and did some minor
tweaking I had been meaning to do for ages), and was done.
Dats my .02c worth.
Karl Bowden
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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