-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Jamie Bennett wrote: > On 24 Apr 2009, at 16:17, doug livesey wrote: > >> Following on from an earlier thread, I now am about to (this >> weekend, anyway) set up a backup policy for my machine using rdiff- >> backup. >> So what files & dirs do people backup on an Ubuntu machine? >> I guess everything in my home directory -- should I try for anything >> else? > > /etc is often regarded as a good thing to keep but traditionally /home > is where the important things are. > >> Cheers, >> Doug. > > Regards, > Jamie. > -- > http://www.linuxuk.org > If you have any software chrooted that you want the config files from, you need to backup the directory the software is chrooted to, then ./etc.
For example, if Apache is chrooted to /var/lib/chroot/apache, you'll need to backup the /var/lib/chroot/apache/etc directory. - -- Many thanks Harry Rickards (a.k.a l33tmyst) - -- () ascii ribbon campaign - against html e-mail /\ www.asciiribbon.org - against proprietary attachments -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAknx3QgACgkQ1kZz3mRu0GqZ+ACgnbAunDQzR3gv96U89jxG0VhH oNgAoOpFHbRz0411LzvTxwvCNuSbFtzC =pEki -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/