On 03/11/2010 09:02 PM, Craig White wrote: > On Thu, 2010-03-11 at 22:32 -0430, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: >> On Thu, 2010-03-11 at 18:54 -0700, Craig White wrote: >> > On Thu, 2010-03-11 at 20:13 -0430, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: >> > > On Thu, 2010-03-11 at 18:29 -0600, Mike McCarty wrote: >> > > > Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: >> > > > > >> > > > > I back up all of /etc and /usr/local. Also /opt if it exists. >> > > > >> > > > Is /opt really likely to contain some configuration information >> > > > that a reinstall wouldn't set up? ISTM that, if the system >> > > > is "modern" enough to use /opt for its install, then its config >> > > > would also be in /var. Not so? >> > > >> > > /opt (and /usr/local) are likely to contain stuff that wasn't installed >> > > via rpm or yum, thus needs to be preserved. That's all. YMMV. >> > > >> > ---- >> > what about /var ? >> > >> > /var/www/html >> > /var/www/named >> > /var/lib/dhcpd >> > /var/lib/imap >> > /var/cache/samba >> > >> > come immediately to my mind >> >> I don't run public services on my personal machine so much of that >> doesn't matter to me. Plus anything with "cache" in its pathname is >> excluded by my backup script as a matter of course. >> >> I do back up /var/log though. You never know. > ---- > yeah but if it's a samba server... unfortunate that redhat packagers > chose to use /var/cache/samba for important files I backup /etc/samba/smb.conf (the only file there I've modified.) There are less than a dozen samba users here. I have notes about how to add them using pdbedit. Since this was how I set up samba originally, I am assuming that redoing the same process will produce the same results including the stuff in var/cache/samba? Am I missing something? > also remembered... > > /var/lib/mysql > /var/lib/pgsql > (database users... not necessarily 'public' services) Thanks to everyone for the suggestions. Anything I explicitly touch I keep some form of record of to allow me to recreate the change later (or at least that is my intent.) For example, config files in /etc, /var/lib/pgsql, var/lib/named, etc are under revision control with the VCS repository getting backuped. The backup scripts dumps a reloadable copy of my significant postgresql databases for backup. Changes made by gui I note in a notes file. <minor rant> I really wish the docs for gui tools would explicitly document what files they change.</minor rant> So for things that I explicitly modify, I have a good record (I hope) of how they have been changed. I am mainly concerned with things like the rpm database which get changed indirectly but which (as turned out in my case) is very useful to have when there are problems because it allowed checking the integrity of the rest of the system. (Of course, everything is useful under some failure scenario but I don't want to back up every- thing, so some discrimination needs to be applied.) -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
