First off, please turn off the HTML in the email. In Compose, hit "plain text". Thank you. On Sat, Sep 09, 2006 at 01:00:39PM +0300, Heikki Pesonen wrote: > > I have 3 times installed Fedora Core (3, 4 and 5) to my computer. Never > has it gone in the way I hoped. Probably I have difficulties with the fine > LVM-system. I have read a lot of it and now I suppose I understand it. Last > time Fedora Core took all of my Linux-hard disk (160 Gb). Now I wanted to > start the fourth attempt, to give Fedora only let's say 40 Gb. Because I am > relatively satisfied to my recent installation, I wanted to make a complete > backup of my recent installation to DVD's and then after reinstalling > Fedora restore it. > I know the command tar and there is also in Fedora installation File Roller > 2.14.0, an archieve manager. I looked at Bill McCartys book "Learning Red > Hat Enterprise Linux and Fedora" (2005), but did not find advice about > reasonable backup strategy in my case. Could someone kindly tell me what > folders I should include in the tar-file and how to restore them in a > relatively simple way. Make a list of currently installed packages: rpm -qa | sort > ~/packages.txt If you use any of the SQL Databases, create a suitable backup for it. Back up /home, /etc and /var. Reinstall. Set up your users again. /etc/passwd will help you with this. Add packages listed in packages.txt that you didn't install during the installation. Restore /home. You may have to change the ownership on some of the users, depending on how you set them up this time vs. last. "man chown" Restore /etc and /var selectively. I usually unpack them to a separate location and copy files in as needed, or edit the working file vs the backed up one. If you use emacs, look at ediff mode. It takes a while, but there is no simple way to do it. Write down what you do as you do it so that next time you have a checklist; it will go faster. -- Charles Curley /"\ ASCII Ribbon Campaign Looking for fine software \ / Respect for open standards and/or writing? X No HTML/RTF in email http://www.charlescurley.com / \ No M$ Word docs in email Key fingerprint = CE5C 6645 A45A 64E4 94C0 809C FFF6 4C48 4ECD DFDB
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