On Thursday 27 January 2005 14:39, Tommy Williams wrote: > Running FC2 and want to format and re-install with FC3, but being > new still began looking at what items I should consider backing up so > that I could install with a configuration file and then load the > backed-up conf files after the installation completed. > Looks like most of what I may need is in the ETC path, but I'm > certian that I do not need to backup the entire directory structure. > Just curious to know how difficult it is to get the machine back to a > "close to identical" state. It's currently acting as an LDAP, DNS, > and SAMBA server. I know that I could simply perform an update, but I > am beginning my planning for disaster recovery and decided this was a > good a point as any to work on it. Anyone have suggestions or > solutions? > > -Tommy
/etc and /var should give you 99% of what you need. i'd shut down all services, make a tarball of each dir, and copy to a remote host. jason -- TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/ TriLUG PGP Keyring : http://trilug.org/~chrish/trilug.asc
