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
e- > From: Johnathan Bailes [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Tuesday, December 17, 2002 10:19 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: What files and directories should be backed up from /etc > > > My company does not want to pay the license fees for client > installs of

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

2002-12-17 Thread Brenden Walker
ke up much space. > -Original Message- > From: Johnathan Bailes [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Tuesday, December 17, 2002 10:19 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: What files and directories should be backed up from /etc > > > My company does not want to pa

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

What files and directories should be backed up from /etc

2002-12-17 Thread Johnathan Bailes
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 back up certain files in /etc to provide for an easier re-instal