Date: 12 Mar 2002 11:46:34 -0800 From: swear@blarg.net (Gary W. Swearingen) To: Cliff Sarginson <csfbsd@raggedclown.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: HIERARCHY BATTLE: Beat the shit out of the rest! Message-ID: <35g035a7s5.035@localhost.localdomain> In-Reply-To: <20020312143434.GD1577@raggedclown.net> References: <20020311161604.05a35bc5.johann@broadpark.no> <20020311173458.GA721@hades.hell.gr> <20020312143434.GD1577@raggedclown.net>
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Cliff Sarginson <csfbsd@raggedclown.net> 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".
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