Date: Sun, 27 Jan 2008 19:05:45 +0200 From: "Ivan \"Rambius\" Ivanov" <rambiusparkisanius@gmail.com> To: "Bill Moran" <wmoran@potentialtech.com> Cc: FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: How to backup the users Message-ID: <89ce7f740801270905j15b85e8cm9b81cc31493c091@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20080127115808.74051c27.wmoran@potentialtech.com> References: <89ce7f740801270759l780e08aaw16710154bf1debe6@mail.gmail.com> <20080127172851.G3181@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> <479CB34A.1060709@otenet.gr> <20080127115808.74051c27.wmoran@potentialtech.com>
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On Jan 27, 2008 6:58 PM, Bill Moran <wmoran@potentialtech.com> wrote: > Manolis Kiagias <sonicy@otenet.gr> wrote: > > > > 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. > > > > > > > > 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. > > A good, general rule of thumb for backing up a system is: > /etc > /usr/local/etc > /home > /var > > /var is the wildcard here ... /etc and /usr/local/etc are generally very > small. /home can be huge, but if it is, it's probably because there is > a lot of important data there. > > But /var can be large with a lot of stuff that you may not want to back > up. Do you need /var/log, for example? > > Frankly, if you have enough space to back up, I recommend you back up the > entire system and restore selectively. Do you have, for example, a > database in /usr/local/pgsql? If you're asking this question, you're > probably better off safe than sorry. I do not have any databases servers on the machine. In fact, it hosts only a cvs repository and a web server and I have already backed them up. I was only unsure how to proceed with the users backup. Regards Rambius -- Tangra Mega Rock: http://www.radiotangra.com
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