Date: Sun, 27 Jan 2008 18:37:30 +0200 From: Manolis Kiagias <sonicy@otenet.gr> To: FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: How to backup the users Message-ID: <479CB34A.1060709@otenet.gr> In-Reply-To: <20080127172851.G3181@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> References: <89ce7f740801270759l780e08aaw16710154bf1debe6@mail.gmail.com> <20080127172851.G3181@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl>
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Wojciech Puchar wrote: >> Hello, >> >> I am running a small FreeBSD server and I have a a couple of users >> ssh'ing to it. I want to wipe the server out and reinstall FreeBSD on >> it, but I want to preserve the users' credentials. Can you please >> advise me how to back them up? > > /home/* > /etc/master.passwd > /var/cron/tabs/* > /var/mail/* > > possibly other files. > > > but format+reinstall is when you have windows, with unix there is no > need to. > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > > You might as well save the whole /etc, you will probably need other conf files and surely you would like to have /etc/passwd and /etc/group In fact, I would also backup the whole /usr/local/etc to get all the configuration settings for my services and so on.
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