On Fri, 2010-03-12 at 10:59 -0700, Stuart McGraw wrote: > 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? ---- well it appears that they finally moved the contents of what used to be in /var/cache/samba to /var/lib/samba (yeah) but the contents are all of the internal tdb (trivial data base) files that samba uses for things like policies created by pdbedit, share information, etc. If you are running a samba server, you should be backing those up. Craig -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. -- 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
