Hi Rajnish

What I would do is backup /etc, /home, /usr and /var. That way if you
have a system crash, you can just install a bare minimum copy of RH onto
the HDD and restore those directories, reboot, and it should be back to
normal.

HTH,

Gonzalo.


On Wed, 2002-04-10 at 10:14, Tiwari, Rajnish wrote:
> Hi All,
> 
>       Having installed RH recently, I am thinking of a strategy
>       to backup important files onto another drive and/or CD ('cos
>       it is a good thing to and also 'cos it is a case of "_twice
>       bitten, forever shy of seagate disk drives").
> 
>       I would like to know what are the important files in RH and
>       where they are kept (/etc/.., ??). As all user data goes into
>       /users/, so that is easily backed up. What other directories,
>       config files that I should backup ?
> 
>       Thanks in advance.
> 
> Regards,
> Rajnish
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