From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jan 27 11: 6: 6 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 6CEB437B401 for ; Mon, 27 Jan 2003 11:06:05 -0800 (PST) Received: from mired.org (ip68-97-54-220.ok.ok.cox.net [68.97.54.220]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 6687143F3F for ; Mon, 27 Jan 2003 11:06:03 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mwm-dated-1044126362.d979f8@mired.org) Received: (qmail 22155 invoked from network); 27 Jan 2003 19:06:03 -0000 Received: from localhost.mired.org (HELO guru.mired.org) (127.0.0.1) by localhost.mired.org with SMTP; 27 Jan 2003 19:06:03 -0000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <15925.33562.323338.252653@guru.mired.org> Date: Mon, 27 Jan 2003 13:06:02 -0600 To: Francisco Reyes Cc: FreeBSD Questions List Subject: Re: Which files and directories to backup? In-Reply-To: <20030127132927.F32694-100000@zoraida.natserv.net> References: <15925.28666.766856.386331@guru.mired.org> <20030127132927.F32694-100000@zoraida.natserv.net> X-Mailer: VM 7.07 under 21.1 (patch 14) "Cuyahoga Valley" XEmacs Lucid X-face: "5Mnwy%?j>IIV\)A=):rjWL~NB2aH[}Yq8Z=u~vJ`"(,&SiLvbbz2W`; h9L,Yg`+vb1>RG% *h+%X^n0EZd>TM8_IB;a8F?(Fb"lw'IgCoyM.[Lg#r\ From: Mike Meyer X-Delivery-Agent: TMDA/0.68 (Shut Out) 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 In <20030127132927.F32694-100000@zoraida.natserv.net>, Francisco Reyes typed: > 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. Ok, I get it. You probably still want a copy of fstab, so you have a record of things you can mount other than backed up file systems and the things created by the install. If you never touch fstab after the install, then you don't need to back it up. > 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. You should set up a cron job to do this backup for you once a day. That way, it'll always be reasonably current. http://www.mired.org/consulting.html Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message