Al Sparks wrote: > Say I were to do a full backup of a RH (or Fedora for that matter) > system, format the drives, and do a minimum RH install. > > What do I restore from that full backup to make things work, or > probably more importantly, what should I exclude? > > I'm using Bakbone / Netvault software to do the backup and restore, and > the restore is failing in the middle. I've made sure to install the > Bakbone client in such a way that it doesn't get overwritten by the > install. Stuff from RPMs should be reinstalled with RPM: this will be much easier than trying to get a failing restore to work, since you'll then have a consistent RPM database. It would help to have a full list of installed RPMs. If you can get at /var/log/rpmpkgs, this should tell you what you need to know. Plug that into yum / rpm / whatever. Beyond that, you should look at what you've customised (probably in /etc), /home and /root (of course), and possibly stuff under /var (e.g. /var/spool/mail). And wherever you keep any HTML files for httpd to publish. Do you actually still have the original system (which you want to duplicate), or are you stuck with a dodgy backup and a blank drive? Hope this helps, James. -- E-mail address: james | It's fair enough for a surgeon to refuse to operate on @westexe.demon.co.uk | someone who won't stop smoking: you've got to give the | anaesthetist a chance to get in there. | -- "Jeremy Hardy Speaks to the Nation", BBC Radio 4