The short answer is to backup the files you want to save. As a general
rule, I suggest backing up:
/etc
/usr/local/etc
/usr/local/www
The last one assumes you have some website(s).
If you are also worried about email, if you are using the standard
sendmail, also backup:
/var/mail
I would
Oliver Iberien wrote:
I'm running FreeBSD 6.0 on a home machine and backing up to a DVD Burner,
probably using kdar, the dar archiver that comes with KDE.
My question is : which system files to back up, along with my personal stuff?
I'm used to using linux distributions that do your system
I'm running FreeBSD 6.0 on a home machine and backing up to a DVD Burner,
probably using kdar, the dar archiver that comes with KDE.
My question is : which system files to back up, along with my personal stuff?
I'm used to using linux distributions that do your system backups for you.
The
Hi Oliver,
At a minimum, you will probably want to back up the following directories:
/etc
/usr/local/etc
/home
That will get all of the configuration files for FreeBSD and the software thar
you installed from ports. The last directory will det all of your user's data.
At 09:58 PM 2/22/2006, Andy Reitz wrote:
Hi Oliver,
At a minimum, you will probably want to back up the following directories:
/etc
/usr/local/etc
/home
That will get all of the configuration files for FreeBSD and the
software thar you installed from ports.
On Sunday 16 April 2006 09:00, Glenn Dawson wrote:
At 09:58 PM 2/22/2006, Andy Reitz wrote:
Hi Oliver,
At a minimum, you will probably want to back up the following directories:
/etc
/usr/local/etc
/home
That will get all of the configuration files for
At 09:08 AM 4/16/2006, Oliver Iberien wrote:
On Sunday 16 April 2006 09:00, Glenn Dawson wrote:
At 09:58 PM 2/22/2006, Andy Reitz wrote:
Hi Oliver,
At a minimum, you will probably want to back up the following directories:
/etc
/usr/local/etc
/home
That
