From owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Nov 25 03:15:44 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 581F916A4CE for ; Tue, 25 Nov 2003 03:15:44 -0800 (PST) Received: from hermes.cs.kuleuven.ac.be (mailrelay.cs.kuleuven.ac.be [134.58.40.3]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 91ACA43FF7 for ; Tue, 25 Nov 2003 03:15:40 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from bert.lagaisse@cs.kuleuven.ac.be) Received: from dr-zook.cs.kuleuven.ac.be (dr-zook.cs.kuleuven.ac.be [134.58.41.20])hAPBFcm24191 for ; Tue, 25 Nov 2003 12:15:39 +0100 (MET) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1])328DA1BB69 for ; Tue, 25 Nov 2003 12:15:33 +0100 (CET) Received: from dr-zook.cs.kuleuven.ac.be ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (dr-zook [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 08255-07 for ; Tue, 25 Nov 2003 12:15:30 +0100 (CET) Received: from iris.cs.kuleuven.ac.be (imap.cs.kuleuven.ac.be [134.58.41.11]) 64A4C1BB6F for ; Tue, 25 Nov 2003 12:15:28 +0100 (CET) Received: from cs.kuleuven.ac.be (mesh.cs.kuleuven.ac.be [134.58.39.127]) hAPBFRH22616 for ; Tue, 25 Nov 2003 12:15:28 +0100 (MET) Message-ID: <3FC33AC6.2050009@cs.kuleuven.ac.be> Date: Tue, 25 Nov 2003 12:19:34 +0100 From: Bert Lagaisse User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new-20030314-p2 (Debian) at cs.kuleuven.ac.be Subject: freebsd reinstall X-BeenThere: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Gathering place for new users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 25 Nov 2003 11:15:44 -0000 Hey My filesystem is screwed (missing package-db, missing log files, ...) after a fsck (deleted to much) I think I need to reinstall my freebsd system. What is the best tool to make a backup of my most important files (X config file, kde configuration stored in homedir ...) And most desirable in a way i can easily restore them to the directory they belong Is there a less time consuming way of fixing my system ? (incl the db containing the installed packages) -- Bert Lagaisse K.U.Leuven, Dept. computer science Address: Celestijnenlaan 200A 3001 Heverlee Belgium Email: bert.lagaisse@cs.kuleuven.ac.be Tel: +32 16 32 78 24