On Fri, Jan 02, 2004 at 01:12:48AM -0500, John Strunk wrote:
All,
I have been watching this list for the last few months and have found
some good advice. Thanks.
Now I have a situation that I need help to resolve.
I have four RedHat systems that I take care of, two are RH9 and two are
RH8. They are all servers with most everything available installed. My
backup strategy in the past has been to backup all data files both
system and private. Then if there is a failure I can reload the system
and download all the current patches and updates to the system and
finally restore the data files.
Now that Red Hat is dropping support for release 8 and soon dropping
support for release 9 I am faced with the problem of keeping a complete
system backup as well as the data.
I am not sure if I have the knowledge to do this. Can anyone explain
what system files I need to backup so that I can rebuild the system
starting with the RedHat distribution DVDs?
It may be a simple thing but I seem to lack a few of the details to pull
it off.
Appreciate any help.
John
Bearing in mind that none of this has been put to the test, my
practice has been to back up /etc (vast majority of config files),
/root (because I keep some of root's private scripts in /root/bin),
/home (duh), and for a server, /var/spool.