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 > -- > SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ > More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug