From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Mar 12 11:43:34 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from lists.blarg.net (lists.blarg.net [206.124.128.17]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 23C1C37B402 for ; Tue, 12 Mar 2002 11:43:29 -0800 (PST) Received: from thig.blarg.net (thig.blarg.net [206.124.128.18]) by lists.blarg.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id CEAA9BCED; Tue, 12 Mar 2002 11:43:28 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost.localdomain ([206.124.139.115]) by thig.blarg.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id LAA19876; Tue, 12 Mar 2002 11:43:28 -0800 Received: (from jojo@localhost) by localhost.localdomain (8.11.6/8.11.3) id g2CJkY810055; Tue, 12 Mar 2002 11:46:34 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from swear@blarg.net) To: Cliff Sarginson Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: HIERARCHY BATTLE: Beat the shit out of the rest! References: <20020311161604.05a35bc5.johann@broadpark.no> <20020311173458.GA721@hades.hell.gr> <20020312143434.GD1577@raggedclown.net> From: swear@blarg.net (Gary W. Swearingen) Date: 12 Mar 2002 11:46:34 -0800 In-Reply-To: <20020312143434.GD1577@raggedclown.net> Message-ID: <35g035a7s5.035@localhost.localdomain> Lines: 25 User-Agent: Gnus/5.0808 (Gnus v5.8.8) XEmacs/21.1 (Cuyahoga Valley) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Cliff Sarginson writes: > This way, since you are presumably backing up /home anyway, you can > always reproduce your local setup when disaster strikes. You can always > reproduce the /usr/local hierarchy from scratch if it really came to it. > To make your life easier in the face of this disaster you obviously > should keep at least a backup of /etc and /usr/local/etc. > > Of course what else you backup depends on your situation. The above is > only a generalisation. Right. There are misplaced (?) config files in /var, including /var/at/at.allow /var/cron/allow /var/at/at.deny /var/cron/deny (Anyone know why that shouldn't be PRed (to move to /etc)?) And sometimes-valuable databases and log files and more are in /var. I just assume that I can only recreate from scratch /usr (including /usr/local). I recently looked for "precious items" there and wound up linking "/usr/local/etc/" to "/etc/local/" and doing something for my custom "/usr/sup/my-supfile" and "/usr/src/sys/i386/conf/my-KERNCONF". To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message