On 03/12/2010 10:11 AM, Craig White wrote: > On Fri, 2010-03-12 at 10:59 -0700, Stuart McGraw wrote: >> On 03/11/2010 09:02 PM, Craig White wrote: >>> On Thu, 2010-03-11 at 22:32 -0430, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: >>>> On Thu, 2010-03-11 at 18:54 -0700, Craig White wrote: >>>>> On Thu, 2010-03-11 at 20:13 -0430, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: >>>>>> On Thu, 2010-03-11 at 18:29 -0600, Mike McCarty wrote: >>>>>>> Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> I back up all of /etc and /usr/local. Also /opt if it exists. >>>>>>> >>>>>>> Is /opt really likely to contain some configuration information >>>>>>> that a reinstall wouldn't set up? ISTM that, if the system >>>>>>> is "modern" enough to use /opt for its install, then its config >>>>>>> would also be in /var. Not so? >>>>>> >>>>>> /opt (and /usr/local) are likely to contain stuff that wasn't installed >>>>>> via rpm or yum, thus needs to be preserved. That's all. YMMV. >>>>>> >>>>> ---- >>>>> what about /var ? >>>>> >>>>> /var/www/html >>>>> /var/www/named >>>>> /var/lib/dhcpd >>>>> /var/lib/imap >>>>> /var/cache/samba >>>>> >>>>> come immediately to my mind >>>> >>>> I don't run public services on my personal machine so much of that >>>> doesn't matter to me. Plus anything with "cache" in its pathname is >>>> excluded by my backup script as a matter of course. >>>> >>>> I do back up /var/log though. You never know. >>> ---- >>> yeah but if it's a samba server... unfortunate that redhat packagers >>> chose to use /var/cache/samba for important files >> >> I backup /etc/samba/smb.conf (the only file there I've >> modified.) There are less than a dozen samba users here. >> I have notes about how to add them using pdbedit. Since >> this was how I set up samba originally, I am assuming >> that redoing the same process will produce the same >> results including the stuff in var/cache/samba? >> Am I missing something? > ---- > well it appears that they finally moved the contents of what used to be > in /var/cache/samba to /var/lib/samba (yeah) but the contents are all of > the internal tdb (trivial data base) files that samba uses for things > like policies created by pdbedit, share information, etc. If you are > running a samba server, you should be backing those up. Historically, I've used a script that walks down /etc/passwd and picks up all the home directories, sorts them, then uniqs them and I make sure those get backed up. I also back up /etc and /var (except /var/log). Then again, depending on your backup media, there's no reason to not back up the entire system (excluding transient trees such as /proc, /dev and the like). I do so using rsync to a server on my LAN (prophead) which has a 500GB USB drive formatted with ext3 mounted at /media/500GB-Drive with a directory called "Backups" on it. Prophead's /etc/rsyncd.conf file contains: uid = root gid = root use chroot = yes [backup] comment = Backup directory path = /media/500GB-Drive/Backups hosts allow = 192.168.1.52 192.168.1.53 read only = no Start up rsync in daemon mode: # rsync --daemon and it's ready to go. The clients (the machines being backed up) run this script: #!/bin/bash # Back up system to a specific directory given on the command # line. Excludes the /proc, /sys, /dev and /media directories MYHOST=`hostname` TODAY=`date +%d-%b-%Y` if [ $# -lt 1 ]; then TGT="$MYHOST-BackUp-$TODAY" else TGT=$1 fi rsync -avXA --exclude-from=/etc/skipdirs.rsync / \ prophead::backup/$TGT The content of the "/etc/skipdirs.rsync" file on the clients is: /proc/* /sys/* /dev/* /media/* I make this a free gift to all. It's quick and dirty, but it gets the job done. "If it's stupid and it works, it ain't stupid!" Note: You'll get SELinux alerts on the rsync server when you do the backup from the client (the /media/500GB-Drive/Backup directory won't have the correct SELinux contexts), so put SELinux in permissive mode on the server before you tell the client to back up. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Systems Engineer, C2 Hosting ricks@xxxxxxxx - - AIM/Skype: therps2 ICQ: 22643734 Yahoo: origrps2 - - - - Change is inevitable, except from a vending machine. - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
