From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jan 29 3:13:59 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E0E7E37B401 for ; Wed, 29 Jan 2003 03:13:57 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail025.syd.optusnet.com.au (mail025.syd.optusnet.com.au [210.49.20.147]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C717043F85 for ; Wed, 29 Jan 2003 03:13:56 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from bsdbrett@optushome.com.au) Received: from kblam.gravity (c16544.eburwd2.vic.optusnet.com.au [210.49.183.163]) by mail025.syd.optusnet.com.au (8.11.1/8.11.1) with SMTP id h0TBDhF17290; Wed, 29 Jan 2003 22:13:43 +1100 Date: Wed, 29 Jan 2003 21:14:42 +1100 From: Brett Harris To: Francisco Reyes Cc: mwm-dated-1044121467.43bfa2@mired.org, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Which files and directories to backup? Message-Id: <20030129211442.215a0c7d.bsdbrett@optushome.com.au> In-Reply-To: <20030128112459.C57135-100000@zoraida.natserv.net> References: <20030128173947.46630490.bsdbrett@optushome.com.au> <20030128112459.C57135-100000@zoraida.natserv.net> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.8.8 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386-portbld-freebsd4.7) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 On Tue, 28 Jan 2003 11:25:57 -0500 (EST) Francisco Reyes wrote: > On Tue, 28 Jan 2003, Brett Harris wrote: > > The best way that I've found to back my machine's configs up, is to > >create a directory such as /etc/config , *move* all my important > >configuration files to it (firewall, syslogd, rc.conf etc - > >basically anything i'd want to keep for a new machine), > >and then symlink them to their proper locations. > > But don't you want to also have an external copy outside the machine? > What if the whole HD dies? > You didn't include it in your reply, but in that email I also wrote: "That way, if it comes time for a backup, all you do is tar and zip that one /etc/config directory, and move it somewhere safe. " "Somewhere safe" being a CDROM/Backup Tape/remote server/remote location. Do you think you'd really keep a backup on the same machine? Wouldn't that defeat the entire point of backing something up? -Brett Harris To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message