-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Johnathan Bailes wrote: |>/etc (so you don't have to recreate those custom configs you worked |>weeks on - just don't blindly restore them in the event of a disaster) | | | That was the kicker I had a nice little script that backed up the etc | dir to a remote machine that was on full backup. Problem is that the | box said we could not just blindly restore them in the event of a | disaster due to the fact that some of those files are going to be | system-generated blah..blah..blah. | | So, he says to me that we need to backup only the critical system files.
While being aware of that, we still do the entire directory. Upon a restore, we dump them into a temporary directory and pull the files which we need, and leave the system generated files (we diff them, of course to note the important changes). Guess I'd rather have more than less in the event of a disaster and pick through the ruffage when I need it. Does your backup utility allow for redirected restores? If you were to list the custom files in /etc, you'd possibly be there all night. PAM changes, samba configs, nfs exports, rc.* scripts, and if you run Webmin w/ tweaks... apache with 100's of virtual hosts each as a separate file in /etc/httpd/conf.d/ - oy, a nightmare. I guess it depends on the simplicity of your install, but I'd vote for being safer than sorrier. - -Rick - -- Rick Johnson, RHCE - [EMAIL PROTECTED] (from home) Linux/WAN Administrator - Medata, Inc. PGP Key: https://mail.medata.com/pgp/rjohnson.asc -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE9/03KIgQdhlSHZgMRAmNjAKD3iyfLa89qRP3pZMgzo9WeW3W9fgCfVxlB hqLKFHstH87bhwZcbQCeoG4= =sJxz -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
