Re: What files and directories should be backed up from /etc

2002-12-18 Thread Ashley M. Kirchner
Bret Hughes wrote: Default must be html? I think that's a personal preference, but Apache ships with DefaultType text/plain configured, and I never bothered changing it. -- W | I haven't lost my mind; it's backed up on tape somewhere. +

RE: What files and directories should be backed up from /etc

2002-12-18 Thread Brenden Walker
bject: Re: What files and directories should be backed up from /etc > > > On Wed, 2002-12-18 at 00:15, Ashley M. Kirchner wrote: > > Bret Hughes wrote: > > > > >PS does anyone know what I need to do to get the webserver > to display > > >the file i

Re: What files and directories should be backed up from /etc

2002-12-18 Thread Bret Hughes
On Wed, 2002-12-18 at 00:15, Ashley M. Kirchner wrote: > Bret Hughes wrote: > > >PS does anyone know what I need to do to get the webserver to display > >the file in a readable format? If I use inpect bod in mozilla it looks > >great. > > > > > http://www.yeehaw.net/fcf.pl - looks fine. >

Re: What files and directories should be backed up from /etc

2002-12-18 Thread Ben Russo
On Tue, 2002-12-17 at 11:35, Bret Hughes wrote: > On Tue, 2002-12-17 at 09:19, Johnathan Bailes wrote: > > My company does not want to pay the license fees for client installs of > > the backup software on all our boxes. > > > > Many of the apps it was noted reside on the nas server and are remote

Re: What files and directories should be backed up from /etc

2002-12-17 Thread Ashley M. Kirchner
Bret Hughes wrote: PS does anyone know what I need to do to get the webserver to display the file in a readable format? If I use inpect bod in mozilla it looks great. http://www.yeehaw.net/fcf.pl - looks fine. What's your DefaultType set to? -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe

Re: What files and directories should be backed up from /etc

2002-12-17 Thread Bret Hughes
There is a new version with at least some of your (Ben's) great suggestions implemented. I tried to comment the file a little better and cleaned up some potential problems with spaces in file names, begining dir probably a few other things. the biggie is that the starting dir is not passed via th

Re: What files and directories should be backed up from /etc

2002-12-17 Thread Ashley M. Kirchner
Johnathan Bailes wrote: Many of the apps it was noted reside on the nas server and are remotely mounted. Therefore, the decision came down to only back up certain files in /etc to provide for an easier re-install. I got ideas of course -- passwd, shadow, nsswitch.conf, exports etc... However, a

Re: What files and directories should be backed up from /etc

2002-12-17 Thread Ben Russo
Bret, What a GREAT contribution! KUDOS! I use a similar procedure to gather Bare Metal Recovery cheat sheets for all my Linux servers. (I also back them up to tape, but I keep online backups of unique files to each server that can be used as a setup guide in the first step of a BMR) I am not a

Re: What files and directories should be backed up from /etc

2002-12-17 Thread Bret Hughes
On Tue, 2002-12-17 at 09:19, Johnathan Bailes wrote: > My company does not want to pay the license fees for client installs of > the backup software on all our boxes. > > Many of the apps it was noted reside on the nas server and are remotely > mounted. Therefore, the decision came down to only b

RE: What files and directories should be backed up from /etc

2002-12-17 Thread aljuhani
Hi. This is what I use to backup my system Manually but you can insert the following commands into a cron-run shell script. I have a directory under home called backup where all backups are stored. You can use tape or ftp to some other machine. The directories are Tared and can be restored by

Re: What files and directories should be backed up from /etc

2002-12-17 Thread Rick Johnson
-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

Re: What files and directories should be backed up from /etc

2002-12-17 Thread Johnathan Bailes
On Tue, 2002-12-17 at 10:33, Rick Johnson wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > /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 bac

RE: What files and directories should be backed up from /etc

2002-12-17 Thread Brenden Walker
Oh, if these machines don't have much changing data on them.. I'd also suggest mondo-archive, it can either archive directly to CDR or create ISO bootable cd images for archiving on a machine with a burner. This gives you a complete system recoverability. > -Original Message- > From: John

RE: What files and directories should be backed up from /etc

2002-12-17 Thread Brenden Walker
I'd suggest everything in /etc including all subdirectories. Note that there are usually files in /var (rpm package database and the like) that may be useful as well. You could remove the start/stop script links but it seems to me that the entire contents of /etc compressed would not take up mu

Re: What files and directories should be backed up from /etc

2002-12-17 Thread Rick Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Johnathan Bailes wrote: | My company does not want to pay the license fees for client installs of | the backup software on all our boxes. | | Many of the apps it was noted reside on the nas server and are remotely | mounted. Therefore, the decision ca