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Subject: Re: A utility to retrieve system configuration
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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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