From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jan 27 10:25:59 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B019537B401 for ; Mon, 27 Jan 2003 10:25:57 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail1.acecape.com (mail1.acecape.com [66.114.74.12]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 26D9243EB2 for ; Mon, 27 Jan 2003 10:25:57 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from lists@natserv.com) Received: from p65-147.acedsl.com (p65-147.acedsl.com [66.114.65.147]) by mail1.acecape.com (8.12.2/8.12.2) with ESMTP id h0RIPoJ7022675; Mon, 27 Jan 2003 13:25:51 -0500 Date: Mon, 27 Jan 2003 13:37:18 -0500 (EST) From: Francisco Reyes X-X-Sender: fran@zoraida.natserv.net To: Mike Meyer Cc: FreeBSD Questions List Subject: Re: Which files and directories to backup? In-Reply-To: <15925.28666.766856.386331@guru.mired.org> Message-ID: <20030127132927.F32694-100000@zoraida.natserv.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, 27 Jan 2003, Mike Meyer wrote: > > Other files won't create as much headaches as fstab if copied over by > > mistake. > > Oh yeah? What about rc.conf? Your firewall config, if any? password? > Seems like they *all* create nasty headaches if copied over by > mistake. The solution to that problem is *not* to not back things up, > it's to NOT DO THAT. Again my case is: * Machine died * Install Fresh OS in new HD/machine * Restore to some "Restore" directory * Move/Copy files as needed. In such case I do want to use the same rc.conf, rc.firewall AS IS. Fstab on the other hand could clobber the installation. One thing I forgot to mention in the post is that I do backup all of /etc somewhere outside the tar. I guess it's just the way my crazy mind works, but when I deal with the tar files it would be a major catastrophy and where I think I could make mistakes. Because /etc is so important I keep a copy of /etc in a second drive. However I do need to also keep the data somewhere outside the machine just in case. Thanks for all the feedback and food for thought. Backups is one of those things that one usually sets up once and then forgets that it needs to be revised periodically. I am jut glad I am revising it before I need them and not as a result of having lost needed data. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message