From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jan 28 8:14:32 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 3AAFC37B401 for ; Tue, 28 Jan 2003 08:14:31 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail1.acecape.com (mail1.acecape.com [66.114.74.12]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D855A43F3F for ; Tue, 28 Jan 2003 08:14:28 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from lists@natserv.com) Received: from p65-147.acedsl.com (p65-147.acedsl.com [66.114.65.147]) by mail1.acecape.com (8.12.2/8.12.2) with ESMTP id h0SGEMJ7008921; Tue, 28 Jan 2003 11:14:23 -0500 Date: Tue, 28 Jan 2003 11:25:57 -0500 (EST) From: Francisco Reyes X-X-Sender: fran@zoraida.natserv.net To: Brett Harris Cc: mwm-dated-1044121467.43bfa2@mired.org, FreeBSD Questions List Subject: Re: Which files and directories to backup? In-Reply-To: <20030128173947.46630490.bsdbrett@optushome.com.au> Message-ID: <20030128112459.C57135-100000@zoraida.natserv.net> 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 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? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message