Date: Thu, 22 May 2003 11:50:18 +0100 From: Ceri Davies <setantae@submonkey.net> To: Nader Atoofi <Nader.Atoofi@TELUS.COM>, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: A utility to retrieve system configuration Message-ID: <20030522105018.GA11303@submonkey.net> In-Reply-To: <20030522104112.GA931@HAL9000.homeunix.com> References: <0DC2A4733C6E8A42A66702B4B7B862DF510BBC@bcmsg011.corp.ads> <20030522104112.GA931@HAL9000.homeunix.com>
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On Thu, May 22, 2003 at 03:41:12AM -0700, David Schultz wrote: > On Tue, May 20, 2003, Nader Atoofi wrote: > > Hi All, > > > > Is there any utility/script in FreeBSD to collect system > > configuration information from the system for recovery > > purposes. I'm looking for something like Sun Explorer in Solaris > > or Snap in AIX. > > I'm not aware of any such tool, but the base system maintains > everything interesting configuration-wise in /etc, which you can > simply tar up. If you use a custom kernel config or custom > /boot/loader.conf, you will want to back those up as well, but > this is easily done by putting these two files in /etc and making > symlinks. For third-party packages installed through ports, you > probably want /usr/local/etc plus the output of pkg_info(1). I also grab /var/cron in my backups; with the stuff that David has mentioned above, that's (crossed fingers) all I need to fully recover a system's configuration. Ceri --
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