On Thursday 11 March 2010 11:56:56 pm Mike McCarty wrote:
Typical root level directories one might find are
/bin system user programs, not needed
/boot system boot programs config, not needed
/dev in modern systems, managed by udev not needed
/etc system
On Thu, 2010-03-11 at 15:21 -0700, Stuart McGraw wrote:
Yesterday I had a little accident when I accidentally
deleted an unknown number of files in /var.
Since I haven't seen anyone else mention it, I will: The chances of
that happening are drastically reduced when you don't run as the root
On 03/11/2010 06:07 PM, Mike McCarty wrote:
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
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,
On 03/12/2010 10:11 AM, Craig White wrote:
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,
On Friday 12 March 2010 12:59, Stuart McGraw wrote:
find /etc -type f -name \*.conf
/home
anaconda-ks.cfg
Plus any specific apps, data configs unique to that system
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I currently backup user only my user files with the
understanding that if I lose important system files,
I will reinstall the system from distribution media.
Yesterday I had a little accident when I accidentally
deleted an unknown number of files in /var. But
since the rpm database was still
Stuart McGraw wrote:
[...]
since the rpm database was still intact, I was able
to rpm --verify all my packages, identify those
with missing /var files and reinstall just those
rpms.
Congratulations on your recovery.
Which leads to my question... Are there certain
files and
On Thu, 2010-03-11 at 15:21 -0700, Stuart McGraw wrote:
I currently backup user only my user files with the
understanding that if I lose important system files,
I will reinstall the system from distribution media.
Yesterday I had a little accident when I accidentally
deleted an unknown
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
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
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
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
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
/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
Did they move /var/named to /var/www/named?
On Thu, 2010-03-11 at 22:09 -0600, Rick Sewill wrote:
Did they move /var/named to /var/www/named?
nope... pebkac ;-)
Craig
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